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Originally Posted by Minnie
Which is stupid. It's just as much distracted driving for them to text their wives/husbands/common-law as it is for anyone else. And let's not start with the hooey that it's probably work related. It's just as easy for it not to be work related. If it's so important for them to be texting for work, then they can bloody well pull off into a parking lot like everyone else.
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Sure, they might be, but if you've ever spoken to a cop on a personal basis you'd know that a lot of it is work related. They don't like to tie up the radios with non-emergent calls through dispatch or their seargents. On top of that, they do take some pretty extensive driving courses and tend to be a lot better drivers than the rest of the public. When distracted driving becomes the cause of multiple police accidents, then there'd be a legitimate issue but that's not the case right now. It's not as if they're texting while they're driving lights and sirens.