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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did she even really need to be arrested in the first place? Seems like that was the beginning of the problem. Not signing may be an arrest-able offense, but you don't have to arrest someone.Just because you can doesn't mean you should.  The ticket doesn't become void.

I wonder why the cops felt the need to draw the line in the sand there?[/quote]

Exactly.  I think it was a power thing.  You WILL comply.  Doesn't matter if it's really important or not.  I AM THE BOSS.[/quote]

I see, so now law-breakers can decide when it's right to comply with a law or not.  Police shouldn't enforce the laws if the offender doesn't believe it's necessary.  And yet, you all will be the first to criticize and blame the police for being incompetent when they cannot arrest someone who will later go out and offend again because of loopholes in the law.

It's not a power thing.  And they didn't arbitrarily draw a line in the sand.  The line is the law, which many of you seem to feel should one should only comply with when it meets your own ideas of merit.  If you don't think the law should be applied, it shouldn't.  Sorry, police don't get to make those decisions.  If legislators passed the law, the police have to enforce it.  They were about as nice about is possible.  They explained that she was required to sign the ticket.  They informed her that she needed to get out of the car and that she was in violation of the law by not doing so.  They showed her the taser and asked if she understood what it was.  They explained that if she didn't comply, they would have to use it.  She willfully resisted complying with their requests and she got what she deserved.  Like I said before, I think she's lucky that they don't charge her with endangerment of a child because she knew that she was pregnant.  Knew that if she did not comply, the officers would be forced to use the tasers and she still did not comply.  How hard is it to get out of the vehicle?  But no, she would subject her unborn child to the taser just to be pigheaded and resist signing the document.

The law cannot go down this slippery slope of sometimes they law has to be applied and sometimes not.  And the pregnant woman should be chastised by the court for her failure to comply with authorities when she was 100% at fault and to blame.[/quote]

Of course the police make these decisions all the time.  Have you ever gotten a warning instead of a ticket?  The police DO have latitude to use good sense when it makes sense.  [/quote]

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