This is actually never what should happen. Rather, officers who do not want to enforce certain laws are renegades who by all rights ought to be promptly relieved of their post. In addition, if a convincing case can be made that they have neglected their sworn duty to uphold the rule of law, then the severest penalties – up to and including incarceration – are appropriate. If an officer of the peace willfully neglects to compel a violator of the codified volition of the public at large to justice, then she or he shirks their duty, and as such should be immediately dismissed from employment by that same public for nonfulfillment of sworn obligation.

Rather than change the law, those charged with its upholding should be held responsible for just that.

Josh Kane

Durango