Kid
Gloves
What's the difference
between a citizen accused of a crime and
a police officer
accused of a crime? I'm glad you asked:
Unlike a member of the public, the officer
gets a ‘cooling off’ period
before he has to respond to any questions.
Unlike a member of the public, the officer
under investigation is privy to the names
of his complainants and their testimony
against him before he is ever interrogated.
Unlike a member of the public, the officer
under investigation is to be interrogated ‘at
a reasonable hour,’ with a union
member present.
Unlike a member of the
public, the officer can only be questioned
by one person during his interrogation.
Unlike a member of the public, the officer
can be interrogated only ‘for reasonable
periods,’ which ‘shall be timed
to allow for such personal necessities
and rest periods as are reasonably necessary.’
Unlike
a member of the public, the officer under
investigation cannot be ‘threatened
with disciplinary action’ at any
point during his interrogation. If he is
threatened with punishment, whatever he
says following the threat cannot be used
against him.
Collectively, these form the Law
Enforcement Bill of Rights.
You would think
that citizens and police would operate
under the same set of laws but we don't.
A bill of rights is supposed to protect
the people from the government, not the
other way around.
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The matter-antimatter metaphor in this
cartoon is pretty crude as such collisions
actually result in hadron cascades and
gamma rays and and quarks and anti-quarks
and Z bosons and ... I think my brain just
exploded. So perhaps it's better if we
just keep this on the pop-culture
Star-Trekkian level of quasi-physics and
leave it at that.
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Whether you realize
it or not today's satirical offering
is the
final Raging
Pencil 'toon of 2015. More importantly,
Friday, January
1st,
2016,
will mark
the tenth year of my crankily progressive
endeavor,
though
the first comic didn't actually appear
until February 10th of 2006. Many
of those first cartoons are permanently
AWOL because I <message redacted> but
they're still here
in my heart
and in my personal archives. I'm replacing
all that I can but progress can be best
described as "phlegmatic".
Nevertheless, I plan to mark the official
February anniversary with something weird
and wonderful ... hopefully. After all,
there
may yet
be
more winter tornados in
my future. Thanks, Obama.
=Lefty=
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