Quote:
|
No, but we have a recourse available to us. If we don't exercise our rights as citizens to defend ourselves, we are fostering the use of bad judgement on the part of a few police officers.
|
Sure, that makes a lot of sense to take a day off from work - or more if it is out of state (not to mention the travel costs) just to sit in a courtroom all day for your five minutes of "justice" where it is your word versus the police officer's. Then, when you inevitably lose because the judge has no evidence presented to doubt the officer's testimony, you now get to pay the ticket as well as court costs. Of course, the above scenario is what happens if you are lucky. If the officer doesn't show up for whatever reason, you get to do the whole thing all over again. When it comes to traffic offenses, our judicial system is essentially non-existent.