Cops know that they can get the most number of truancy tickets napping kids near the school the first hour after school starts. These tickets are $240 each. Nice revenue enhancement for the LAPD. "It turned out that many students who got slammed with tickets werenât exactly âtruants,â many students were getting ticketed while they were on their way to school, and sometimes while they were just blocks away. The tickets ended up hitting the poorest students worst; community organizing groups found that many kids have to help drop off their younger siblings to school, or are dependent on Los Angelesâ shoddy public transit or their own two feet to get them to school, and often were juggling many other things in their lives besides just school."
<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nGPt-AzyTcg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Love how they even ticketed a cop!
My favorite was Florida traffic cops (FHP and locals) in the 90s running portable speed limit signs to different spots on the highways. Maybe they still do it, I don't know... Anybody remember Dukes of Hazzard? The reason given for Sheriff Roscoe turning bad was that the county rejected a bond offering that would have paid the pension he'd been promised. If a law is on the books, it will eventually be used for revenue or control purposes by those whose function it is to enforce things. That's how humans work... Society works best when there is a balance between people respecting the power of the police and the police respecting the power of the mob. But we're humans, and generally suck at the balancing thing, so we swing from one one side to the other, over and over.