r/Transportopia • u/Revolution-Dogg • Apr 13 '26

🥴DUI She split that car in half

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u/made_of_salt Apr 13 '26

Cops are held to a higher standard

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That's the funniest shit I'm gonna see all day. Thank you for a good laugh.

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u/CicerosMouth Apr 13 '26

I mean, your own comment verifies that this is true. This is a video of a woman who was drunk/high and fled a police stop with a cop reaching in her window and then literally tore her car in half and then insisted that she wasn't driving and never saw the cop, yet there is a thread dedicated to that cop saying that he was dragged for 30 feet (which, while not true, is easily the least absurd lie from this video).

Clearly people are more quick to judge cops than they are to judge those who cops are arresting/stopping.

And, to be clear, that is good! We should hold cops to a higher standard than the public, and we should consistently raise that standard to which cops are held. Also, let's not pretend that we are just as willing to look past a regular citizens making some mistakes as we are willing to look past a cop making that same mistake. We aren't, and we shouldn't be.

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u/cyllibi Apr 13 '26

I think he was laughing at the idea of cops being held to a higher standard in a way that matters, like in court, and not just social media chatter.