-What makes police officers think they can abuse their authority?
-When and where have they done this? (personal experience)
All cities across the nation need the proper authority to keep everything under control.
Police officers do just that. They are here to provide a safe and crime free environment
as much as possible. Yet still there are some officers that feel they need to prove to
people that they are in charge and have the authority over everyone else. These officers
are ones who cite pointless tickets and harass harmless individuals day by day. I know
this from personal experience. Therefore police officers are a mystery to me. Do they
have to surpass a certain quota? And why do they have a tendency to abuse authority?
I have received four tickets up until now. For this topic I will only talk about one of
them. It was a music pollution ticket. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is
a ticket for having the music in your vehicle playing too loud and causing pollution to the
publics ears. The point of this ticket alone is a mystery to me but it is in fact a law. Here
is a little background on receiving the ticket. The ticket was given to me in the middle of
the afternoon. Not only that, I was driving on a very public road in the middle of town
(Manteca). At the time I was thinking, "Isn't there some sort of crime taking place at this
very moment that is much more important than a measly music ticket?" I'm sure there
was and that is why I think police officers have a certain quota that they must meet in
order to keep their job. There could have been a fight downtown at a local bar, or a
group of gang members causing trouble, or even a speeding ticket that was more
Another interesting topic when talking about police officers is the way they treat other
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