"Judge Dredd" Powers For Police Urged

so this means what? Officers that can shoot lava out of their fingertips? officers who can fly? Officers who can shoot spiders webs out of their hands?

Also it would be really cool if they had homing bullets, like dredd's pistol does. Also, that really cool motorbike. No "perps" would fuck with someone riding one of those, would they?

If they made it so that people who tailgate on the motorway got their cars confiscated & left standing on the hard shoulder, in the rain, that would be OK.

Otherwise, it's "high ranking 'public servant' in seeking more powers for self" again, isn't it? Plus, imagine if Hitler had been British - "that genocide/massively devastating continental war was 'unfortunate'"

Here's a novel idea, let's develop police officers with JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF POWERS

That "paid more" bit is so random! CRIMINALS, FEAR ME I EARN £60k a year.

Slighty more upscale is the Bill ForFour, with the hat, the stick, the badge, also a gun right here, and optional extra ammunition, for scaring the nation.

The top of the line is the Bill Roadster, faster and slicker looking than either the ForTwo or the ForFour, with all the ammunition you could want, a hat, stick, badge as usual, also a dog, a night vision helmet and built-in GPS.

All lines are also available in BRABUS editions which use the latest in expensive technology to absolve the officer of all culpability for their actions - the Bill - starting at just £6,810

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His rationale doesn't particularly make sense anyway, largely because he's not actually asking for anything. The two examples his gives have less to do with police powers and more with procedural stuff. He wants cops to be able to issue spot citations for things, but that's not a matter of police power, since police can ticket people already -- it's just a question of expanding the list of crimes a person can be cited for on the spot. And with drivers licenses, you don't have to increase police powers to get them seized -- you just have to kind of spit in the face of the presumption of innocence and make an administrative rule that people who've been cited for certain vehicular offences have their licenses suspended until trial. (I.e., the police do the same thing they always do, at the same pay, only it becomes law from the bench that certain citations prohibit you from driving in the interim.)