By Sally Dugman

I like the citizen arrest process, although never tried it out. It means that you go up to a wrongdoer and cart him or her off to jail if you don’t fear that your head will be blown off with a gun by the perpetrator in the process …

Who is assessed to be guilty and the procedure about assigning guilt and punishment has some flexibility, obviously. Thank goodness for that all considered, especially since the letter of the law and the spirit of the law can radically differ in some circumstances, and ruining lives is only very rarely a viable option.

All considered … At around 2 a.m. a few years ago, a drunken cop from my town was joy riding in his fairly new police vehicle in the next town over to mine, mine being the one from which he derived and where he worked, and he totaled the car by hitting a telephone pole in his drunken, “out of it” stupor.

So police from my neighboring town showed up at the crash site and their conversation with the drunken fellow cop went as follows … according to people whose house was across the street from the struck telephone pole, who run a deli on the first floor of their house and who confidently told me after I mentioned seeing the broken telephone pole.

So the neighbor cops said: We will cover you so that you don’t lose employment from this one horrible incident wherein you had a lapse in judgement. So the story will be that you were chasing a speeder, who you suspected may be a criminal, into our town and given the speed in the chase, you lost control of your car …

I, myself, didn’t turn my town’s cop in after hearing of this fictitiously bogus story concocted by police and being told from the deli family. After all … Who wants to be held responsible throughout posterity for ruining another’s job prospects because of a likely one time lapse in judgement? And … Who wants to face off a whole bunch of cops who made up a scenario such as this — cops from two towns — in a court of law?

In my view and in the end, certain wrongs can and do get swept under the rug. Others — not so easily, nor at all … such as someone deliberately aiding and abetting a huge genocide by donating bombs for the effort to kill off civilians as Trump eagerly does, along with having a removal plan for the other Palestinians who don’t outright get murdered via the bombs so that he can, subsequently, build his Gaza placed, money making, high end resort. …Greedy creep using our U.S. tax dollars to murder civilians of all ages. ABSOLUTELY unacceptable!

Should he, like my cop, get a second chance? Absolutely no since he keeps purposefully and relentlessly supporting a wide-scale murder of common people of all ages again and again.

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Sally Dugman writes from and lives in central MA, USA.