"Are there police for police?"
"What does active driveway mean? I don't get it. Can you explain it again. Well, if THAT driveway is active, why don't they have "active driveway" written like the other one?"
"What does a horsefly look like? Is THAT a horsefly? What colors are they? Are there horseflies in NY? Are there horseflies in India? Where else do horseflies live? AHH!! IS THAT A HORSEFLY?? AAAAHHHHH!!!"
"Is there such a thing as tornado police? There isn't? So tornadoes just do whatever they want?"
and, perhaps my favorite so far:
"Mommy, I don't have a favorite thing in the whole world. So what's my favorite thing in the world?"
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QUICK! let her know that she already told you that favorite 'thing' is you, mommy! (oh wait, except maybe it's ... candy!)
L.'s question raises an important point. The police power of the state is certainly not unlimited; in addition to myriad statutory and administrative regulation of police functionality, which itself provides a whole range of prescriptive requirements incorporating the mundane as well as the aspirational, there are fundamental constitutional rights - substantive and procedural - which restrict and define the limits of the government's authority. The means of enforcing those limitations can be structural (e.g. hierarchical accountability within a law enforcement agency) as well as judicial (e.g., a Section 1983 action against an agent of state government for violating an individual's civil rights under color of state law).
obnoxio, we all know where you live so you'd better think twice about carrying on with these shenanigans.
and if you're reading and commenting on blogs while on the clock, we might have to send those law enforcement personnel you mentioned over there...
That last one is AM, right??
no, they're all from L.! Isn't that crazy? Sometimes she seems really smart, but then other times...
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