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You want us to consider the “human element”? Okay: What about the humans who don’t get the kind of consideration you’re championing from the police, because “the police officer is having a bad day”?
If a citizen would get a ticket, a police officer should get a ticket. What matters is the offense, not who committed it.
This is my argument though. At least here (Denmark) you could be lucky and not get a ticket for this. I’d argue that you’d more likely not get a ticket as long as everything was civilised and both parts talked it out.
I understand that there are differences between cops and definetelly countries too, if it’s true that according to an other comment you’d get **10 years for this!?!? **
Yeah, that all sounds reasonable, but the fact is enforcement should be evenhanded. Everyone thinks the US has a monopoly on bad police, but I’ve seen it in Canada, the UK, and Australia too. From what I’ve read this is a common complaint voiced by citizens of countries across the world. Your example seems benign but it’s the inconsistency of enforcement that leads to situations like we have here, or in Seattle where the SPD officer hit and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk and got off with no punishment at all.
Your surprise at the potential sentence is warranted, as well. It’s truly mind-boggling here sometimes.
You want us to consider the “human element”? Okay: What about the humans who don’t get the kind of consideration you’re championing from the police, because “the police officer is having a bad day”?
If a citizen would get a ticket, a police officer should get a ticket. What matters is the offense, not who committed it.
This is my argument though. At least here (Denmark) you could be lucky and not get a ticket for this. I’d argue that you’d more likely not get a ticket as long as everything was civilised and both parts talked it out.
I understand that there are differences between cops and definetelly countries too, if it’s true that according to an other comment you’d get **10 years for this!?!? **
Yeah, that all sounds reasonable, but the fact is enforcement should be evenhanded. Everyone thinks the US has a monopoly on bad police, but I’ve seen it in Canada, the UK, and Australia too. From what I’ve read this is a common complaint voiced by citizens of countries across the world. Your example seems benign but it’s the inconsistency of enforcement that leads to situations like we have here, or in Seattle where the SPD officer hit and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk and got off with no punishment at all.
Your surprise at the potential sentence is warranted, as well. It’s truly mind-boggling here sometimes.
I don’t even think killing someone would give 10 years here unless it was premeditated.
As long as it’s the same sentence for the same offense, for both police and regular citizenry, I don’t have anything to say about it :P
Look up assault and battery of an officer