Go ahead and annoy a police officer in NYC.

[Prick]

Don't say I didn't warn you.



A bill making its way through the New York state legislature would make it a crime to annoy a police officer by subjecting them to physical contact.
The New York State Senate on Wednesday passed the bill that would make it a felony to "harass, annoy, threaten or alarm" an on-duty police officer, WIVB.com reported.


State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-Rome, told the station that individuals who harass police officers "create situations that can lead to injuries" and "deserve to pay a price for their actions."
Under the bill, which will now move to the state Assembly, anyone found guilty could face up to four years in prison, the station reported.


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[Butch]

This is suicidal. There goes your freedom Yanks.

 

[Boing]

Why was this bill passed. Anyone know?.

 

[Willy]

Why was this bill passed. Anyone know?.

Because they can.

 

[DannyDeVito]

I think that is a good call. Many jerks out there that like to taunt the officers knowing there isn't much they can do.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

I think that is a good call. Many jerks out there that like to taunt the officers knowing there isn't much they can do.

+1.......

 

[SillyGirl]

+2

 

[Shiek]

Sorry, I'm the other way around.... too many cops out there that are on a power trip. You want to fix the problem, get rid of the problem cops and replace them with people that actually give a shit.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Sorry, I'm the other way around.... too many cops out there that are on a power trip. You want to fix the problem, get rid of the problem cops and replace them with people that actually give a shit.

My feeling is that they start out with the best of intentions but get overwhelmed by the negativity of their environment.

I was conversing with a woman today who was a 17 year veteran with Peel Regional.

She quit a few years ago and now is a personal trainer at Goodlife Fitness.

She told me she couldn't handle the grind anymore and that her mental health was starting to deteriorate.

I think it is important for us to realize how tough their job is and for God's sake don't exacerbate things by threatening or harassing them on duty.

This is why I personally don't have a problem with this bill being passed.

 

[Shiek]

Heres the facts...

In the past, cops used to talk to you at the side of the road if you were speeding and 9 times outta 10 back then, they wrote a ticket for a lesser charge. There was compassion back then.

Fast forward to today, cops dont talk to you anymore, they say, come to court, we'll talk. All they are after is the overtime, the courts are overflowing, cases are backlogged and cops are making a killing with overtime, some of them retire early and go work for those paralegal firms to help you in traffic court. It's all a frigging scam. People get pissed, they start losing respect towards the cops.

I'm in a take out joint getting food and in comes a cop who orders food and leaves without paying. Several times now I've stopped them and said, pay for your food. They take things for granted and that of course pisses people off when they do that. I'm not saying every cop does it but far too many do. Yes there are great cops out there but at the same time, the bad ones are screwing it up.

 

[Admiral]

Heres the facts...

In the past, cops used to talk to you at the side of the road if you were speeding and 9 times outta 10 back then, they wrote a ticket for a lesser charge. There was compassion back then.

Fast forward to today, cops dont talk to you anymore, they say, come to court, we'll talk. All they are after is the overtime, the courts are overflowing, cases are backlogged and cops are making a killing with overtime, some of them retire early and go work for those paralegal firms to help you in traffic court. It's all a frigging scam. People get pissed, they start losing respect towards the cops.

I'm in a take out joint getting food and in comes a cop who orders food and leaves without paying. Several times now I've stopped them and said, pay for your food. They take things for granted and that of course pisses people off when they do that. I'm not saying every cop does it but far too many do. Yes there are great cops out there but at the same time, the bad ones are screwing it up.

Once they decided to pay cops that show up to court for infractions/tickets. All changed.

Money rules dude.

 

[Baz]

I tend to agree with Sheik on this one. It seems many officers are abusing their authority more and more and this is evident in Chief Bill Blair's video rant the other day. I do believe they have a very hard job and it's more complicated now than ever with video surveillance everywhere but they need to earn our respect by treating the good people properly and with the respect they would like to have in return.

 

[Art Mann]

I have always treated police officers with respect. In turn, they have always treated me with respect.

This may have something to do with what my parents called "The Golden Rule."

 

[Pullmyfinger]

"The Golden Rule."

Share away Art.

 

[jumpingjackflash]

I have always treated police officers with respect. In turn, they have always treated me with respect.

99.9% of the time it's absolutely true. Be polite and respectful and usually there's no problem at all.

 

[Plucker]

99.9% of the time it's absolutely true. Be polite and respectful and usually there's no problem at all.

+ 1

 

[TINY]

Indiana is doing the opposite.

Hold onto your holsters, folks: shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana.

Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force on a public servant — including an officer of the law — in cases of “unlawful intrusion.” Proponents of both the Second and Fourth Amendments — those that allow for the ownership of firearms and the security against unlawful searches, respectively — are celebrating the update by saying it ensures that residents are protected from authorities that abuse the powers of the badge.

Others, however, fear that the alleged threat of a police state emergence will be replaced by an all-out warzone in Indiana.
Under the latest changes of the so-called Castle Doctrine, state lawmakers agree “people have a right to defend themselves and third parties from physical harm and crime.” Rather than excluding officers of the law, however, any public servant is now subject to be met with deadly force if they unlawfully enter private property without clear justification.

“In enacting this section, the general assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to recognize the unique character of a citizen's home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant,” reads the legislation.

Although critics have been quick to condemn the law for opening the door for assaults on police officers, supporters say that it is necessary to implement the ideals brought by America’s forefathers. Especially, argue some, since the Indiana Supreme Court almost eliminated the Fourth Amendment entirely last year. During the 2011 case of Barnes v. State of Indiana, the court ruled that a man who assaulted an officer dispatched to his house had broken the law before there was “no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.” In turn, the National Rifle Association lobbied for an amendment to the Castle Doctrine to ensure that residents were protected from officers that abuse the law to grant themselves entry into private space.

“There are bad legislators,” the law’s author, State Senator R. Michael Young (R) tells Bloomberg News.“There are bad clergy, bad doctors, bad teachers, and it’s these officers that we’re concerned about that when they act outside their scope and duty that the individual ought to have a right to protect themselves.”

Governor Daniels agrees with the senator in a statement offered through his office, and notes that the law is only being established to cover rare incidents of police abuse that can escape the system without reprimand for officers or other persons that break the law to gain entry.
“In the real world, there will almost never be a situation in which these extremely narrow conditions are met,” Daniels says. “This law is not an invitation to use violence or force against law enforcement officers.”

Officers in Indiana aren’t necessarily on the same page, though. “If I pull over a car and I walk up to it and the guy shoots me, he’s going to say, ‘Well, he was trying to illegally enter my property,’” Sergeant Joseph Hubbard tells Bloomberg. “Somebody is going get away with killing a cop because of this law.”

“It’s just a recipe for disaster,” Indiana State Fraternal Order of Police President Tim Downs adds. “It just puts a bounty on our heads.”

https://rt.com/usa/indiana-shooting-law-state-591/