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Originally Posted by larrymeyer
Tony like you my stance won't change
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Fair enough.
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If you don't know the law how can you arrest anyone ?
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Not all judges know all the laws either yet we let them preside over criminal cases and occasionally they issue bad rulings.
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As for PA case the officer stated on at least 4 occasions he knew the law he was offered a Gun Rights flier about OCing and refused it.
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I have always applauded PA Patriot's flyer initiative but it is not a legal document and therefore it is not something that an officer on scene would review and "use" in his assessment of the situation. If he takes it and reads it off duty and educates himself, great.
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They could have made telephone calls to the Chief or the DA's to find out the law.
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CLEO's and DA's aren't knowledgeable on all the laws either. What's to say they would have had a different opinion?
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Like when Mrs Pa was threatened with arrest for video taping the incident. While I don't expect a LEO to know all the laws on the books I do expect them to know the ones that deal with a persons rights. PA was never read his while we were there.
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I'm not siding with the police in his particular incident but constitutional rights are also extremely complex. Maybe even more so than statutes.
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I believe a DA or someone who has access to the law books are on call to assist the police when they make a stop. Plus every collage offers a Judicial course on criminal justice which most municipalities will pay for a police officer to attend as laws change each year.
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I'll bet you could go to law school for 25 years and still not know all the laws on the books.