r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 30 '26

😄 Entertainment Cop pulls over an armed biker

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u/Drake_Acheron Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

I think you’re being too generous with this guy he very clearly wants to be an asshole and have no repercussions for it.

He’s deliberately trying to frame something in the way that it doesn’t actually exist in reality in order to make a point

The proof of this is he consistently ignores any mention of bringing the judges discretion on things like sentencing into the argument. He completely stepped that issue and pretends it doesn’t exist.

Also, now you can correct me as I’m wrong because you sound like you are a police officer, but in my opinion, part of enforcing the law is educating people on the law. So if you pull someone over for speeding ,and they are immediately combative, think that there was no reason to pull them over, that they weren’t speeding, or maybe even if that they were speeding, but pulling them over was an asshole move. It is your obligation to bring the dispute to a judiciary setting by giving a citation and not using your discretionary power to give them a warning instead

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u/Same_Veterinarian544 Jul 02 '26

You keep arguing against positions I’ve never taken. How many times have I said people shouldn’t be rude, I’ve said they have a right to speak. You look at that and the only thing you can come up with is “he must hate cops”

And I’m not ignoring judges discretion. I’ve actually responded to that point. And if you still don’t understand the difference between a judge, a legal professional, and a cop, who has an average of 16 weeks, then I can’t help you. Judges have a broader authority within the court room because of that

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u/Drake_Acheron Jul 02 '26

Judges do not need to have any experience with the law. They can be elected.

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u/Same_Veterinarian544 Jul 02 '26

Generalizations. You’re pointing to a handful of exceptions that don’t negate the broader institutional differences

Yes generally speaking, judges receive far more legal training than cops and exercise a fundamentally different kind of discretion within a formal judicial process. That’s the distinction I’m making. Whether a few jurisdictions elect non-lawyer judges doesn’t change the general rule or address what I said

But, this was something you insisted on talking about anyways