They often stop people without a justifiable cause, falsely accuse, lie on police reports, commit perjury in court, and usually get away with it. Perhaps Israel has become like America in that negative way. My brother-in-law who is an attorney and used to be a policeman, said a lot of bullies are attracted to becoming police. If the good cops complain, they are targeted by the bad cops. Same is true in American prisons and jails. A woman prison guard in California I met at a pharmacy waiting for meds, told me about a third of the guards are sadistic. So what do you do about a corrupt system that is immune to improvement and correction? When I was attacked, literally attacked, by a policeman who called me a Jew and arrested me without a warrant after trying to kill me on my front porch for asking to see a warrant on a false accusation by a Nazi Germany born store clerk who hated me for refusing to agree with her (Inge Mingus) that Jews are evil, I turned the matter over to Hashem. Hashem never fails me. I watched the Fresno Bee obituary column very closely to see who was judged. I felt that police, the false accuser, judges, lawyers, and prosecutors commited a sin unto death against me. Seven months later, there have been numerous catastrophic weather judgments on the area and one 36 year old male corrections officer from the town that misused Hashem's authority is dead. A lot of people were involved in the conspiracy to attack a friend of Ariel Sharon, me. The ELS Bible codes say, "Hashem loves A(riel) Sharon." My concern for General Sharon which included staying in Israel for four months to pray for his recovery offended atheists and Catholics in California who organized attacks on me. Now they are being judged by the ruler of the universe: Hashem.

Well, when unlikely bedfellows like you guys tell me I'm way wrong, I do listen up. So I ask myself why it's a violation of the law to shave in one's car (I assume it's an electric razor). And, well, I think it shouldn't be. So, I think citizens should tell the cops to buzz off. Some laws don't deserve to be on the books--they're there to make money and to appease pressure groups. I don't dispute the low moral character of the MKs. I do think such shady characters are likely to pass stupid laws (like the one that was allegedly violated). Oh and redmike, just because I think some (many) laws are stupid, it doesn't follow that I think all laws are stupid.

I have a better one: how about every citizen getting a built in camera in his car that videotapes the cops, and every time a cop is caught violating the law, he is actually imprisoned and the owner of the video gets a nice, fat check?

not his reaction which is what is disgraceful! This guy was in a pub brawl months ago and lied about it but was caught on camera. This time he tried to snatch papers from the police. I lived in LA for 14 years and wouldn't try and snatch papers from a cop there !! Using a cellphone is against the law here too and I don't see shaving as much different to talking on the phone. BTW - the streets here are not like In LA and most of the cars are stick shifts. - regards Mike

This poor excuse for a human being should have suffered what an ordinary citizen would. The head of knesset security should not even be involved in this.

cop (a "volunteer" busybody) to buzz off? Maybe only a jerk with immunity would do what OTHER motorists SHOULD do. I await the peer-reviewed studies establish that shaving is a substantively and statistically significant risk factor. Cellphone use involves a shift of attention that shaving just doesn't. When the law does not deserve respect, the law loses respect. That's not trivial in a country where illegality is so common. Pass decent and sensible laws and enforce them with paid, professional staff.