GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

[Ralph Yost (home)]

Rob
I completely agree....that enforcement of the existing laws is completely
appropriate. We should not have a beef with that.
I have not had a personal experience with this Venice officer, so I have no
personal opinion. However, based on what has been written here on the Great
Loop email list over the years, I would question one aspect of this law
enforcement: the method by which the law was enforced.

We all know that using extreme force or brutality to enforce a law is not
acceptable, to cite an extreme example. Looking the other way or insisting
on a bribe is not acceptable either to cite another extreme example.
However, treating citizens courteously and with respect is in order and is
appropriate. This is the area in which I am given an impression by others
who report on their experience, and if it is true, then the officer should
be gigged for that.
R.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT ZANUSSI" <rzanussi at shaw.ca>
To: <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi


> 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!