In the era of dash cams, body cams, and records retention requirements, discretion is limited. You give someone a break and they do something bad, you’re in the wind. The first thing a department does is examine your actions and try to absolve itself of liability. They’ll whip out all the laws and show how you knowingly failed to enforce the law. The footage will show the same. Hopefully your guild has good attorneys.
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No one gets any breaks for anything and you sleep easy at night.
