Should cities deputize your neighbor to ticket your car? How about empowering citizens to issue citations for excessive vehicle idling, or to catch you texting and driving? You’d imagine rule-of-law conservatives and libertarians would back this public-private partnership already underway in Washington DC, New York and California. More amateur cops should mean more justice, right? Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott think we’re double-parked in 1984.
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Double Parked in 1984: Cities Deputize Your Neighbor to Ticket Your Car
Should cities deputize your neighbor to ticket your car? How about empowering citizens to issue citations for excessive vehicle idling, or to catch you texting and driving? You’d imagine rule-of-law conservatives and libertarians would back this public-private partnership already underway in Washington DC, New York and California.
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I could just hear Curtis Sliwa repeating, “Snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches,” on his old radio show throughout this episode.
In the battle for freedom, never has a smaller issue pointed out a more important one. Sovereign Citizens turned upon one another to serve their servants in the government destroy’s the one thing that keeps us free and in charge of THEM! How Clever of our minions in government, get us to spy on one another and you instantly turn a country where you feel free to speak your mind into one where you fear everyone who might be watching. This is why all adults need a good understanding in Philosophical Principles. Way to go, Guys. This needed to be highlighted. Beware Government Snitches!!
I wonder if you get a bonus cut for giving your parents a parking ticket.
Scott, that is an awesome story. It’s moments like that, when you just say the perfect thing with no time to even plan it out, that I think the words just come straight from God and out of your mouth.
My first thought was, if we have to now enforce our own laws, why the heck are we paying these clowns!? The whole point of the government is to protect individual liberties BY ENFORCING THE LAW! If we have to enforce our own laws, the government isn’t doing it’s job!
If private citizens are allowed to write parking tickets, won’t that reduce the number of jobs for meter maids?
There already exists common law allowing citizen’s arrest…the added incentive of payment is new and is vile.
When I was in college, I had a pad of printed “parking tickets” to leave on offenders’ windshields. It had several lines with checkmarks for things like “being a jerk” and “taking up two parking spaces” or blocking driveways or whatever. Everyone has their own parking pet peeves. And I think it worked because the person would be so relieved that they didn’t actually have a parking ticket that they would be able to accept the rebuke.
So when I first heard about this, that’s where my mind went, and my reaction was positive. But as you men so rightly point out, putting the resources of government behind “trained” citizens is not a good idea.
Which brings up an interesting question, to my mind. As Scott pointed out, there is in fact something positive about a local neighbors taking responsibility for their neighborhood. The more local, the better. So where do you draw the line? Neighborhood Watch is okay, right? (Citizen-based but police sponsored and trained.)
Yes! Thank you Steve, for while talking about the potential nosy neighbor bringing back from retirement THE EYEBROW OF TOTAL DISDAIN!
Thank you, Scott. As I was listening to Steve and Bill, I was thinking, “But if you’re camped way overdue in the spot I want, you’re stealing from me or from somebody else.” So, do I summon law enforcement (or apply to be a junior ticketer) or do I get out my axe or do I deflate your tires? Scott, you provided a more courteous way to do an alternative to those last two that involves personal responsibility. I like. Thank you.
Steve: Love your line about law & disorder.
In the movie ‘The Comancheros’; Edgar Buchanan had this great line.
‘As sensible Texicans, what we can not do legal & proper; we will do illegally & improperly’
I found one of these deputies
and what to do with them
https://youtu.be/OSyueBoC9mE
Scott!! You are an American BAD@$$!!!
I don’t know specifically where Scott lives. If you were to speak up like that here they would either burn your business or you house to the ground if you weren’t shot first, assuming you run the thing. The laws always seem to favor the criminals in these cases where you are faced with the choice of force verses retreat. If you retreat you will forever be the target of that same activity, over and over – until you change your behavior to something they understand. And if it involves one person – they ALWAYS go get their “friends” and increase their numbers. Arresting them doesn’t work – they are released the next day. That is where many cities are at now. And if you needed to protect yourself – every single person in that establishment would sue you for endangering their lives or in the case of a discharge – ear damage. It’s just not worth it.
Scott now lives the Dallas Metro area, but the stories he told were from younger days in different places.
Scott, I have sent this video on to members of my family and friends as they will recognize my “voice” in the two incidents that you cited in your own life. If all of us would stand up like that, a good many problems in this country would be solved. And BTW, my 10-year-old granddaughter told me yesterday about a situation where she stood up to the parents of two very ill-behaved boys and made the parents go deal with them instead of continuing to allow them to inflict their rottenness on other kids. We can ALL do this! When we do, we are not mimicking the snowflakes–we are showing them what it looks like to be grownups.
Here’s one solution to the parking problem. There 10.5 billion acres of land mass in America. If every person owned just one acre of land, there would be enough room for 10.5 billion people. But there are only 328,862,603 people in America, which means there’s a lot of room for growth. Simply write a law outlawing land parcels of less than one acre per person and the parking problem will disappear. But along with that, there needs to be an Amendment forbidding government from taxing that land. It’s called allodial land title. Of course, that will never happen because people are too domesticated to help themselves. They want government to cater to them.
Thank you, Scott, for STANDING UP as a *good* private citizen. That’s what responsibility looks like.
This would be a bad idea indeed. People who try to be little enforcers are the ones who scream the loudest when it is turned on them. For example, when neighbors call the police for extra speed enforcement in their neighborhood because a few people are driving too fast, they are generally the ones who get caught and scream bloody murder when they are given tickets for speeding in their own neighborhood. Never fails to backfire on them.