I respect law enforcement officers, but I have no respect for those in the system who work the system. Whose job is it to make sure that the law is enforced and that rules are applied within a police system ran by a political appointee?
When an accident occurs with a police officer driving a government vehicle, how long does it take to process blood alcohol levels and to enforce the existing rules? Are we playing politics or applying a different set of rules to law enforcement officers?
The answers to these questions are important to society. When events like these occur on top of recent racially fired events with a history of racial accusations of the past, who has responded? When laws are passed to inhibit pan-handling, a law rarely enforced outside areas of affluence and in the views of tourists, while homeless people, many who are vets, are quietly barred from camping under a bridge within eyesight of our downtown, who is to stand up for the downtrodden. Any answers?
Justice is not only blind, it's silent. When laws are not applied equally to all people, we have no laws, no justice, no freedom.
Indianapolis Star article referenced under fair use exception of copyright laws.
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