Quote - > Quote - Which is why I prefaced that remark with "Nothing personal." When you become a cop, you are not the same person you were before. And when you begin to enforce nonsense, what matters is not who you are but what you are.

 

Nothing Personal does not go particularly well with your "what you are" wording following it up....You're basically saying (in a larger sense) that all cops are pricks because there are stupid laws against jaywalking and sodomy.  This is a dumb policy, and it is very unlikely to be reversed, but personally insulting the people who carry out the policy is pretty obviously not going to help get it reversed.

You are putting words in my mouth. "What you are" is a cop. That's what I said. I have nothing against cops, but when my friendly neighbor is in uniform what matters is not that he's my friendly neighbor but that he is enforcing the law. I don't treat him like my friendly neighbor, and if he treated me like his buddy next door he'd get canned. I didn't say anything to insult cops.

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