Double Doughnut Standard

I'm gonna kick your ass and get away with it

“[Police officers] need to move quickly, in split seconds, without giving a lot of thought to what the adverse consequences for them might be. … [A]nything that’s going to have a chilling effect on an officer moving – an apprehension that he’s being videotaped and may be made to look bad – could cost him or some citizen their life.” — Jim Pasco, Fraternal Order of Police

(Read the celý piroh.)

Hey Pasco – as you defenders of the surveillance state always say to us: if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to worry about.

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One Response to Double Doughnut Standard

  1. jared May 24, 2011 at 9:50 am #

    It always seems that when it comes to police issues, people (including many libertarians) always seem to argue over the peripheral issues such as whether such and such an action is a violation of a police officer’s legitimate powers without every bringing into the discussion whether such powers are legitimate in the first place.

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