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Yup. To see this mentality on full display you just have to pull up videos of cops getting DUIs.

They all act like it's the most insulting thing in the world that they get pulled over. They all use their status as cops to try and get out of the ticket. The cops that pull them over always treat them in the softest and most deferential way imaginable. And I'm sure more times than there are videos for, these cops get away with DUI which is why they are so incensed when the arresting cop doesn't play along.

> "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

~ Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal and former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of France)

Particularly if you filter out the context when presenting the filtered data:

“Wish I could be there. I’d kill for such an opportunity. All the best and see you next time.”

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."

"Ninety-eight percent of warrant reviews eventually result in an approval, and over 93% are approved on first submission. Further, we find that the median time for review is only three minutes, and that one out of every ten warrants is opened, reviewed, and approved in sixty seconds or less. [1]"

Mind you, this data only represents the state of Utah's electronic "e-Warrant" system. It would not surprise me is results were not too different across other states.

[1] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/unwarranted-warra...

Historically, they've considered land borders with Canada and Mexico, coastlines on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to be the edges of the 100 mile "reasonable distance":

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

This page:

https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understand...

Is one of the few that includes international airports, but then they go on to use the "200 million Americans within 100 miles of a border" statistic that's only accurate if you're only counting the land, sea, and Great Lakes borders. Which is still insane.

If you add a 100 mile circle around every international airport, that's basically every major population center in the country.

Sounds like yet another absurd misrepresentation, let's see if anyone can call them on it.

That's correct, the zone is also 100 miles around every international airport.

> crime, jobs, the economy, inflation, and health care

These are the post-facto rationalizations voters cite to explain or defend their vote. But the actual decision is made much earlier than voting time, and it’s one driven primarily by emotion and social influence. The “issues” are a convenient alignment mechanism but not the primary motivator.

This should be obvious by the fact voters must choose between two viable candidates – the choice has been made for them, long before they get the luxury of sorting through which issues are most important to their vote.

Then how did we get the laws we have now? How did we get the constitution and the amendments?

I wonder if this will shift over the next decade as Millenials start to become the voting bloc to appeal to, a generation that grew up with the internet (or at worst, started picking up the internet late in college/early in the workforce)?

Among other factors, boomers grew up in a time where it wasn't unusual to announce your home address during a televised interview. Their ideas of privacy and locality is so fundamentally different from a generation that was the test bed for factors like cyberbullying, doxxing, mass trolling/harassment for users all around the world.

And you know, spending your 30's/40's seeing blatant government overreach to harrass minorities and political opponents will help. Doubly so for Gen Z seeing this in their early adult years.

It's going to be cheaper for municipalites to have group insurance for this (or self-insure) than to have to pay the police enough that they can afford their own insurance.

I don’t disagree, but can we really claim to have the rule of law if there is a class of people who can flagrantly violate criminal law and court orders and suffer zero criminal consequences?

Tech solutions are toothless without laws to prevent authorities from detaining people indefinitely until they surrender access to their data. Efforts to prevent authoritarianism need to think more from the perspective of autocrats.

The people, using the 4 boxes of liberty: Soap Box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, and lastly, the Ammo box.

Congress < Supreme Court < The People

We've had a significant breakdown in process here. Congress is deadlocked. The Supreme Court is corrupt. The only thing left are The People (protest / vote < civil disobedience < escalation beyond).

I don't know if that applies if you get a Trump judge.