GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

[ROBERT ZANUSSI]

Let me see here, you are proposing that the officer pick and choose which laws he wants to enforce, yet when he does that, ie look for non Fla registered boats, you don't want him to do that. I don't see how you can have it both ways.

Has anyone looked up the Fla statute under which he was supposedly harassing boaters? If the law was there, then he has full right to enforce it. 

If I was doing my job, as per job description, and my supervisor attempted to pull me "up short" there would have been a backlash that would have been felt in Ottawa. He tried it once, and after I pointed out the errors of doing this, (against policy, obstruction of justice, along with a few other cirminal offences) he never tried it again.

See, thats the nice thing about police work, you are handed a pile of statute books, a couple of ticket books and told to go to it. And, at least in the organization I worked, no one could tell me what particular laws to enforce or not to enforce. Nor could they pull any tickets I had written. 

I know that a lot of you will venomly disagree with what I have said, but as an ex peace officer, I have to side with this officer.

Rob (flame away, I got my asbestos suit on)
My game, my rules, I win!

The only reason I can think is there 
> are enough laws
> on the books (some conflicting with each other), that if you 
> annoy the officer
> they can always find some reason to hand out a ticket, so the 
> best course is
> to keep quite and don't annoy the officer. Clearly this officer 
> is (was?) not
> using good judgement in choosing which and
>  how to enforce the laws. As such he should be pulled up 
> short. I don't
> believe for a minute that there was nothing the polititians 
> could do about it.