While that may sometimes influence an officer's decision to issue a warning instead of a ticket for 10 over the limit, I've never seen it carry over to criminal conduct - nor should it.MechAg94 wrote:I have heard that "professional courtesy" thing is expected and often given in many states especially up in the Northeast at least in some states.The Annoyed Man wrote:Perhaps I should have rephrased my question thusly: "Do people check their morals at the door when they go to work for Christie?" I know the guy was an LEO, which makes his alleged crime even more egregious. I expect politicians to be thieves. (Please note, I don't want them to be thieves, but after decades as an observer, I expect it.........much the way I expect any other class of criminals to be thieves.....) If it had been Christie himself who was the thief, it would have surprised me much less. But LEOs? I don't expect it from LEOs. And to have the nerve to ask for "professional courtesy"?Abraham wrote:The alleged thief isn't a politician.
He's an LEO, who was/is a Christie bodyguard.
The professional courtesy question apparently was in the form of his asking the arresting officer for leniency.
An officer who would ask for and expect that is seriously on the wrong side of the law and dishonors his fellow officers, who won't take that lightly.
You'd have to be a politician for that to work, and the decision to look the other way would be made well above the pay grade of the street cop.