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I have, street racing and dui, 71mph over the speed limit in biloxi, around 1983.

Plus a couple more times.

last time when I was 33, about 25-30 before that.

Yup, while in high school a new county jail was built and we had a class tour.

Showing us all the different cells, the Sheriff went over all the featured that the new jail had that the old one did not.

Now let me tell you the old one did not have many of the new features. A class mate was the sheriff son and I had been to the old one a few times visiting. The City Jail was across the street from the city bar. The only baby in town and it was busy on weekends and so was the jail.

I have, street racing and dui, 71mph over the speed limit in biloxi, around 1983.

Plus a couple more times.

Now that my LE career is completely behind me I can say this w/o repercussions from the administrators who did not seem to understand the difference that sometimes you need to see the grey in the "black and white" of the law.

There were more than a few times I saw situations where it appeared that something got spun out of control and a good person who normally would never have any contact with LE outside of speeding or some trivial nonsense had things snowball and ended up getting charged with whatever. These were not bad people. It was just a cascading series of events due to relationships or dumb things. What they were NOT was the 5% of society that takes up 95% of law enforcements time (normally)

Anyways, I have on more than a few occasions violated all manner of policies. Not handcuffing certain people until I got right to the jail. These people were zero threat and did not need a 30 mile ride in cuffs, but had to be walked in in cuffs, so I would pull over a block before the jail and slip them into the cuffs. Then take them straight into an area to get bonded out and skipping all the steps in between, and even calling a local public defender (guys and gals I had a good working relationship with)for them so they didn't say or do something even more damaging to their situation. A little "off the books" advice on how both sides work, so they could make smart choices.

Basically walking them through a system so they would not get eaten alive. Plus they had no business being in a holding cell with a bunch of thugs anyways.
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The world is not black and white and a 45 year old guy/gal or 65 year old grandmother who has no criminal record should not be treated like a 30 year old with 15 prior arrests in the last 5 years.