As I was driving out in the rain this morning I saw a cop who didn't have his lights on; the law is "wipers on, lights on." Cops also drive while talking on their cell phones. Is it so out of their budget to purchase headsets? & don't most phones these days come with head sets anyway?
Why is it that the individuals whose job it is to enforce the law do not follow the law? Schepher-Hughes and Lock refer to the body politic as "the regulation, surveillance, and control of bodies (individual and collective)" (pg. 7). As far as I'm aware, police are a part of the social body so why do they act as if they are above the 'control' just because they are the ones who are enforcing it? It is extremely unfair and quite appalling that "civilians" need to treat police with respect and obey their every word for fear of being arrested and thrown into jail. Even if we do respect them it might not do us any good and the outcome may still be the same (as Jailbird's & Masochistic Lion's posts in the beginning of the semester told us).
If one's individual body-self is a member of the social body then one should follow along with the laws set forth by the body politic and be held just as responsible in the case that they do not.
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