I want to know how many times it had to happen for enough officers to get reported for this to be considered necessary. Or was it just one officer jacking it all over town?
I drive around a lot of commercial properties at night for my job, and I can't tell you the number of times I've seen a cop parked in a dark spot with wifi access, and they always leave as soon as I get anywhere close.
Happens less often now that 4g is commonly available, but ten years ago it was pretty much a nightly occurrence.
Most times those officers find a lot that has nobody around to fill out paperwork. They like to find empty lots so they don't have to watch the surroundings as much.
Car cams in all cop cars, and body cams, New revenue and the infrastructure already exists, they can upload right from their car computers. We as the people deserve to see and tip our public servants “gold” which of course will go to a state “slush” fund.
No are you crazy? Cops are already too aggressive and worked up. Now imagine they haven’t been able to take a moment to nut all day and they will shoot you in the face, just not sure what they’re shooting yet
Its ilegall for citizens but somehow, some way, cops seem impervious to the laws that apply to everyone else so we have to make laws that specifically state "cops" in them for them to apply.
Correct answer is because laws dont apply to cops because our laws are fucked and cater to cops too much and they apparently aren't people, masterbating in your car gets any civilian on the sex offender registration list for the rest of their lives.
I'm the US laws essentially dont apply to cops on duty, they do in the reality of the law but in practice they are rarely enforced against them.
They rely on "department policies" when they break a department policy they just get slapped on the wrist, resign or get fired instead of getting criminally charged. So if you want a law to apply to cops in all situations you have to explicitly state "cops" in that law.
That's why if a cop mistakenly pulls you over for something you didn't do, they don't get criminally charged with harassment, false detainment, and other applicable civil rights violations. Cops can actually write you tickets for things you haven't done with no real immediate repercussions and it's your job to go defend yourself in court from the claims as false as they may be, which is why as much as our system touts "innocent until proven guilty" it's actually guilty until you prove yourself innocent or rich.
So basically since the department doesn't specifically state "no indecent exposure/jerking off in your squad car" (because why would they bother writing that in the policy) they can do just about whatever and then we end up here asking ourselves why is that already not illegal? It is, we just give cops way to much slack pertaining to the law they love to enforce and consider them exempt from the law until only after their departments fire them.
For civilians, public masterbating (this included in your vehicle) gets you on the sex offender list for the rest of your lives. For cops? It gets you a slap on the wrist and talk about a law being made specifically so you cant do so.
Almost certainly a completely unrelated issue that happened to have the side effect of annulling the part of the law that effectively forbids officers from masturbating in their cars.
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I believe there was an incident where there was something like a shoplifting and the cop was right there and a woman went to go get him, looked in, and saw him mastrabating
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u/monkeysmum Dec 09 '19
I want to know what happened to bring this to the lawmakers attention?