This morning in the Las Cruces Sun News, a story broke about how LC's city council has approved a new amendment to ban cell phone use while driving a motor vehicle. It is a smart idea...I've almost taken out a curb or two in my day trying to reply to a text. For this reason, I don't even acknowledge my cell's existence while I'm in my car. So I do not blog today to knock the city council's decision. Instead I blog today to bring up an interesting kink in their plan. You see, every time I have the pleasure of driving by a LCPD cruiser, the police officer inside is usually more involved in their text conversation than driving safely. I have driven by more officers on their cell phones than I have my fellow motorists! These are the same officers who will be writing us all of those nasty tickets come the official ban in Feb. 2010. So who will be ticketing the officers? Really. Is it fair that I should pay the officer's salary with my taxes and then have to chug out another $120 in fines after I get pulled over for answering my cell? Keep in mind that it is a good 95% chance that I'll be pulled over by the very same cop who just got done hitting the send button on his own cell phone. Not fair at all. And I don't think the ban is a bad idea either, I would just like to know that LCPD has to follow the same rules as everyone else.
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