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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3132416" data-attributes="member: 43724">I can see that point of view. And in a way I agree with it. But then you get into the motivation aspect of law enforcement. Lets face it, a certain percentage of cops are lazy and will not enforce the law unless there is a tangible reason to do so. IMO those cops need to be removed and replaced with people who become cops to make their area safer for the average citizen. That being said people need motivation to do anything. Traffic fines, jail time, asset forfeiture, and loss of privileges/rights are all negative motivation to get people to comply with the law. Without a way to enforce negative motivation for cops not enforcing the law, there has to be a positive motivation. Its a double edged sword but such is the way with people. We could scream that all cops should be saints with guns, that they should strictly adhere to precise principles, but this is real life. We could think up ways to make this better and with each new idea there would be probably a dozen new ways to abuse that idea. Until we can have robots that are not susceptible  to laziness, corruption, poor anger management and basically everything that CNN shows us about cops, we have to work with the reality that some cops are going to abuse their power. We have to find a way to create an oversight for those few while providing sufficient motivation for the middle of the road cops to enforce the law. Just my 2 cents.</blockquote>

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