…..while I get my license for you. Have you ever had a thought like that? Lord knows I have from time to time. We all have a bad cop story to tell, one of your own perhaps, but most often something you heard from a friend about someone else’s friend etc., etc. Have you ever really put yourself in a police officer’s uniform and thought about what it’s really – really – all about? You may have given it a noble try but I guarantee you didn’t get close. As a former police officer and Founder, CEO/President of Web Traffic Law, I’ll tell you why I say that.
You know how you treasure your privacy, how important it is that no one looks over your shoulder while you’re working. And you know how agitated you get if an unwanted intrusion of your privacy comes along. Chances are you can get away from it or make it go away. And I’ll bet you’ve never walked into a room where no one was happy to see you. Uniform police officers make their living under those very adverse conditions every single day. When you see them driving around in their patrol cars and stare at them to see what they might be doing every other person who sees them is doing the same thing. That police car is a 4-wheeled fish bowl for all ten hours of their work day. Imagine everyone staring at you while stopped at a red light, while you walk anywhere (all the time), while you’re dealing with a motorist, even while you’re just cruising the neighborhood. Absolutely no privacy. In fact, severe scrutiny is the order of the day. Now add in all the calls you’re sent on where, at best, half the people are glad to see you and the other half are angry to see you. Or worse, everyone is unhappy to see you when you walk in, and they’re likely drunk or high to boot. That’s a normal day for uniform police.
Having personally experienced all of this and then some for 16 years as a police officer, I can tell you that circle-the-wagons mentality police officers have between themselves and the public is a well earned, but skewed, perspective. Web Traffic Law is committed to bridging that gap by educating its site visitors and clients about the realities of policing. You won’t find any wilful blindness or pandering to the cops here – if they’ve performed badly you and I will rant about it. And if they’ve performed well I will always offer a Beautiful Bouquet (my expression for praise). My vision is to evolve Web Traffic Law into North America’s premier resource for traffic court defenses and traffic enforcement knowledge. Your input – your rant – is an invaluable asset to all of us who seek justice in our legal system. So give it to me!!
So here we are, one of the planet’s leading economies, with state of the art everything for our legal system. Ever wonder when you gave government the permission to place us under constant surveillance? Cameras transmit ethereal images of judges in the courtroom who mete out the law to criminals inside the jailhouse, cameras watch the main lobby in the courthouse where security screening is tougher than airports, cameras in the courtrooms watch us watching the judge, cameras watch us walking in the hallways and parking our cars – god I haven’t seen any in the bathrooms but I wonder if they watch me when I go pee?
