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Are you saying that blowing through a light is not an abuse of power? are you saying that police do not recieve freebies from stores and other institutions? are you saying that your average street cop (forget, for a second about narcotics detectives) in an inner city neighborhood has NEVER roughed somebody up for intimidation purposes? the fact is, while some instances of the abuse of power are more extreme and more prolific in inner city neighborhoods than in middle class neighborhoods, The act of blowing through a stoplight without flashers IS an abuse of power, and it is indicitive of other abuses as well (if a cop is willing to BLATANTLY disreguard a law that is meant for nothing but citizen safety, how far else is he willing to go?) it is simply a case of, "how are you going to uphold the (traffic) law when you don't even follow it yourself?" Does my logic threaten you?