If They Don't Follow the Law Why Should I?

Obviously the laws are put in place to keep people safe. Driving would be a lot more dangerous if if it weren't for street lights, stop signs, seat belts, horns and turn signals. Think about it the road would be chaotic. I have began to notice however, that those who are in charge of keeping the order, police officers, are often the ones breaking the laws. Everyone knows the feeling of when you see a cop you instantly look to see how fast you are going and usually slam on your brakes. The police have that power over us that even if they are not shooting radar we still feel the need to obey the law. Most recently though, I have seen numerous cops breaking the law themselves. In the last week alone I have seen this happen multiple times. A few days ago I was driving home and a cop flew past me and did not have his lights on. I assumed that he was going to pull someone over. He got behind a car and rode his tail for quite some time. Finally realizing that the car in front of him was not going to go any faster the cop switched lanes and flew past him. Now I was not going the speed limit at the time but the cop had to be going at least 15mph faster than I was. Earlier this week I was driving to class and I was stopped at a red light sitting next to a cop. The police officer was not wearing his seat belt at the time. I was shocked to see this especially because of the Click It or Ticket campaign that the police department has been enforcing so much. My main question that I'm posing here is how can the police department expect, much less give out tickets to people when they themselves are breaking the same laws. It looks like some of the police officers are a bunch of hypocrites when I see things like this taking place. It is also annoying that society is expected to follow rules and laws that the enforcers don't see fit to follow themselves. I have included a promo video from YouTube that was shown in North Carolina for the Click It or Ticket campaign. I am not saying that I am against wearing seat belts I just think that in order to convince people to wear them then police officers themselves need to be wearing them as well.