I’ve talked about cops who don’t know the law many times, and I have personal experience with cops who don’t know the law. I’m sure they know the laws that generate revenue like the back of their hand, but as far as the laws that prevent them (government agents with guns) from interfering, they are blissfully ignorant. What they lack in knowledge, they make up for in bluster.

I’m sure bluster works 99% of the time, mostly because people don’t know the law or their rights. and partially because cops act like Kim Jong Un, constantly teetering on the edge of insanity, anxious to unload their handgun on anyone who would question their authority and run back and get the arsenal out of the trunk of their cruiser to finish off any victims.

Our job, therefore, is to know the law, and teach it to our kids.

Here’s a good example of crazy, ignorant cops: