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In article <359554F9.AA37DBB2@ix.netcom.com>,
Richard Berkeley  <bummer@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
}dougbird wrote:
}
}> The Post editorial was not against ticketing slow drivers who impede
}> traffic.  It quite correctly took the Frederick Country police to task for
}> arresting and manhandling a woman on the pretext that she was fleeing from
}> the police which is an offense separate and distinct from driving too
}> slowly.
}
}The way I see it, I'm behind a car for a while and the car's going well below
}the speed limit and does not pull over when I turn on my sirens would compel me
}to use that kind of force.  Any cop around here would. 

"It's all about attitude," Mr. Jackson said. "They puff their chests
out behind that badge, and they threaten you. They don't have to treat
people that way."

That's from today's Frederick Post.  But the answer, of course, is if
they didn't want to treat people that way, they wouldn't become
cops.  It's a benefit of the job.

-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."