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OK, lemme get this straight.

It is now against the law to attempt to prevent others from breaking the law?

What law is being broken by trying to 'frustrate the police' in the performance of their lawful duty?

Why didn't the prick cop charge her for breaking this alleged legitimate law that frustrated them from performing the duties of their job, if such a law actually exists?

Seems to me the only thing that could charge her with had to be a bogus charge that came down to a 'he said, she said' scenario in which the cops are given the benefit of the doubt in the courts.

Unfortunately, incidents like these erode the public trust in law enforcement and cause most people to mistrust the cops...with good reason.

Good point. he laughs off a vindictive act by one of his own, but supports another vindictive act by one of his own against a private citizen.

Looks to me like he supports the notion that cops can do whatever they please.

Wait a minute. What's the difference between what this lady did and what the sheriff does when the department announces the location and time of a DUI check point?

Hasn't the Supreme Court stated that for a check point to be legal, the police/sheriff must give advance notice?

Most the bars in my neighborhood post/announce the locations of the checkpoints

and he lied about having his lights / sirens on while driving 70mph through a neighborhood for a car theft.

1) deet nailed it. This particular cop was on a handheld device. I'll share a bit of the specifics. He was in the driveway of a gas station/minimart/restaurant, idling for a minute while talking on the phone before turning right to head south towards Malibu.

I had been driving north on Malibu Canyon Road, looking to turn left into the gas station where he was idling in the driveway. Because of the oncoming traffic heading south, I had to wait about a minute to make my left turn. All that time, he was on the phone until he turned right and drove south while STILL talking on his phone.

Granted, I don't know why he was on the phone, but I know there was no sense of urgency, nor was he using a Bluetooth when he entered the roadway while still talking on his phone.

Why is it so difficult for you to admit that some cops break the same laws with impunity that they enforce upon us?

2 Stop. Just stop. My gym is about 100 yards from the lost Hills Sheriff station. I live about 1-2 miles from the station, and regularly see them come and go. I can't even begin to count how many times I have been driving behind a Sheriff car on Lost Hills Road over the years and watched them come to a quasi-rolling stop... at the exact same stop sign where they set up their rolling stop trap on others.

I used to never have a problem with it because it's such a sparsely traveled road. That stopped when they cited my daughter for coming to a rolling stop. She told the cop that she came to a complete stop, and the greatest response he could give her was "Yeah, but you didn't come to a stop in which you could count to 3-Mississippi".

I know that to be true because she immediately came in the house inquiring about the law she was unaware of that you had to come to a stop for a 3 second count before proceeding.

"I haven't had a Ticket since 1976."

I've had two tickets since 1980... But I'm not foolish enough to believe that I've only broken the driving laws two times in over 30 years. Better to leave it that you haven't gotten caught for any driving violations since 1976.

or have a bumper sticker/decal...supporting local police.

I honestly pity anyone who is/was in law enforcement when SHTF.

She wasn't preventing somebody from breaking the law. Anymore than the guy in my example was. She was trying to prevent them from getting a ticket.

Look if an argument is too silly to be believed, I wouldn't try to make it. I will bet the person in the other Circuit didn't try anything that lame.

Years ago my agency was not fairly compensating the Police Officers while at the same time were fairly compensating the Fire Fighters. The City Personnel Director had a personal problem with Police Officers.

In response during a contract impasse, we began issuing warnings and putting DUIs into cabs rather than issue cites or make arrests.. Within a couple of weeks we received our much deserved raise in pay. Yes, it is about revenue as much as anything else.

The woman was well within her rights as long as she stayed out of the road. If she did, then the officer is falsifying an arrest report and should get 30 bricks if it's his first offense. If it has happened before, he deserves permanent bricks.

If the woman was in the roadway, then somebody needs to explain why she was physically arrested as opposed to a citation. She could have screwed up more than we know, but I smell something funny coming from the good guys' side in this case.

As you know, I will defend righteous cops to the death. Immature, ego maniacs I will point out all day long because they cause heartache for the rest.

23123 CVC allows a handheld cell phone to be used to call a Law Enforcement agency or for other verifiable emergencies. Officers are exempt due to this law, as they are trying to outflank the police scanners.

Ear phones are not routinely issued, particularly by agencies that issue earpieces for the officers' portable radios and they would conflict.

To address the scanner issue and get officers off the phone, many agencies are turning to scramblers to defeat scanning. And of course officers are not supposed to be making routine calls while driving, but who is going to try to prove that one out?

It is like a game of tennis.

Yeah what he said.

When I left law enforcement they did not have telephones and computers. We had to right tickets on rocks....

Oh well.....I made that part about the rocks up. It was actually slate