Selective Enforcement of the Law

Ok. So many of us know that some blogger likes stealing my copyrighted material. Some of us also know the blogger took that property without my permssion because he admitted doing so in writing on his blog.

Further, he steals copyrighted material all the time. He posts on his blog what he steals. For example, he recently was posting photos he stole from Sports Illustrated. Clearly, this person is a crook and has no respect for intellectual property of others.

Now the city of Merriam Police Department likes to engage in political and selective enforcement of the law. Allegedly, their motto is serve and protect; just like it is for municipal law enforcement all over America.

But in Merriam, Kansas, it more like "protect and serve some of the people some of the time" depending how the Chief of Police feels on any given day. Frequently, when I was a national credit card fraud investigator, I worked with law enforcement officials including municipal police departments, the Secret Service and the FBI.

In regard to municipal police departments, selective enforcement is a subtle form of both discrimination and abuse of power. When a municipal police department, even one like mine, Merriam refused to do their public duty, there is word in Black's Law Dictionary called nonfeasance. Defined as the intentional, knowing and wilful failure to perform a public duty.

There is also misfeasance. Which is almost as bad as selective enforcement of the law. Now, if a public official refuses to not perform a public duty, is there anything you or I can do about it?

You betcha.