Some animals....

[phill4paul]

Published on Oct 8, 2014
Caught this today on Highway 2 just out of Wenatchee. WSP had their aircraft up to catch speeders in the 60mph section of Hwy 2. Apparently there was a "DRE" drug recognition expert conference up in Lake Chelan today- so the WSP plane caught several marked and unmarked (and a motorcycle) doing well above the speed limit (26mph over in at least once case)

The aircraft stopped calling out the speeds until ground units would confirm they were or were not a police car. If they were a police car they didn't get stopped.

Watch the video and see what you think. Seems like the Washington State Patrol is okay with officers driving 20+ mph over the limit when not responding to any call or emergency.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Es1RiupA0&feature=youtu.be

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/53862_LjhyKY7EE66mLjWlnQYaxOce8.jpg

[tod evans]

Now, now, don't be picking on the brave warriors.......

[phill4paul]

Now, now, don't be picking on the brave warriors.......

Speeding to the hospital emergency room for a legitimate medical condition equals a beat down. Being late for a conference....meh.

[kcchiefs6465]

Beat me by about 15 minutes.

[LibForestPaul]

Only civilians can break civilian laws.

[Occam's Banana]

Well, it would be pretty silly if they ticketed speeders who were cops.

After all, it would be like the system stealing money from itself - and then giving that money back to itself. What would be the point of that?

No ... ignoring cops who break the rules and focussing their attention solely on mundanes is the only way to avoid inefficient closed loops ...