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green73
11-13-2013, 02:40 PM
SORRENTO, LA — Citizens are asking why a cop who hands out speeding tickets like candy is exempt from the same laws that he so enthusiastically enforces.

Officer James Bell recently wrecked the tax-subsidized vehicle in a crash exceeding 100 miles per hour. This prompted investigators to review the GPS recorder outfitted in the vehicle to review his driving behavior.

The GPS unit revealed hundreds of excessive speeding incidents. The afternoon of the crash, Bell’s cruiser had repeatedly reached high rates of speed –109 and 106 miles per hour — in separate instances.

In 2 months time — from July 1 to September 3 — Bell drove his police vehicle more than 75 miles per hour a total 737 times, oftentimes outside of town limits, outside his jurisdiction, WLOX-13 reported after seeing the GPS records.

“You’re driving like that in areas outside of your jurisdiction, surely you’re not chasing people outside of your jurisdiction,” said Andre Gauthier, who is representing the woman Bell injured in the high-speed crash, which occurred on September 2nd.

Police Chief Earl Theroit gave Officer Bell a written reprimand and dusted his hands of the matter. He refused to put Bell on administrative leave because he “doesn’t have the manpower.”

In the same two months, Officer Bell issued more than 300 speeding tickets. Bell’s apparent role on the 5-man department is revenue generation, and the town can’t afford to have one less tax-collection unit on the roads of the 1,500-resident town.

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http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/sorrento-officer-james-bell-speeding/

aGameOfThrones
11-13-2013, 02:47 PM
To protect and serve.... But who?

donnay
11-13-2013, 07:40 PM
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

DamianTV
11-13-2013, 07:43 PM
Just Us.

Speeding with a valid reason is one thing. Ambulance on the way to the hospital. Fire Truck. Etc. Of course, if we are caught speeding on the way to the hospital taking a victim with a life threatening situation, all too often the person driving the victim to the hospital is soon in need of medical services themselves due to being severely injured by the police.


There's NO Rule of Law... when the crime that is charged, not based upon what law was broken, but by who committed it.

kcchiefs6465
11-13-2013, 07:47 PM
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"I'll name the compromise candidate. He'll be me. I'll name the compromise platform. It will be our platform."
~Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 Republican Convention

ETA: In case this is unknown, I am not trying to mislead. He wasn't referring to the Republican Party, he was referring to his new progressive party. (the Bull Moose Party) It was before he took his delegates and left. (because he thought he was cheated out of a few) Republicans were long compromising before Roosevelt said this.

Roosevelt long held beliefs in legal positivist theories. (that because a majority want something it is right.) Hardly the man to quote with regards to article.