Monroe
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I have been interested in the law concerning school zones, and I have a pretty close friend who is also a police officer.
He had no input regarding the federal law. In fact, what he told me left me shaking my head: His education on federal law at the academy was non-existent.
Laws about how to make sure a conviction sticks were included, but...
The point: if there are too many laws to teach the LEO, and too many for any one lawyer to know them all, how can we possibly not be law breakers? The answer is we don't know, and you probably are...
And I think that is the point and purpose, because then our fake freedom can be taken at any time. Like one cynical cop (not my friend) once told me: "There are two types of people, people I have caught breaking the law, and those I haven't caught yet."
Even my buddy is breaking the law every time he carries while off duty on the way home (he passes many schools and has no CPL). I think he rests secure in the knowledge that his fellow officers would never be so stupid as to charge him for a silly federal law...and I think that is true, until it becomes useful to use it.
He had no input regarding the federal law. In fact, what he told me left me shaking my head: His education on federal law at the academy was non-existent.
Laws about how to make sure a conviction sticks were included, but...
The point: if there are too many laws to teach the LEO, and too many for any one lawyer to know them all, how can we possibly not be law breakers? The answer is we don't know, and you probably are...
And I think that is the point and purpose, because then our fake freedom can be taken at any time. Like one cynical cop (not my friend) once told me: "There are two types of people, people I have caught breaking the law, and those I haven't caught yet."
Even my buddy is breaking the law every time he carries while off duty on the way home (he passes many schools and has no CPL). I think he rests secure in the knowledge that his fellow officers would never be so stupid as to charge him for a silly federal law...and I think that is true, until it becomes useful to use it.
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