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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (7987)	10/8/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

So who makes the decision on enforcement? The police? I doubt whether it is a formal decision process (although I am not a specialist on either law or law enforcement). My guess would be that most folks (including the police) don't even know that a particular law is on the books; that the laws often violate common sense; that enforcement petered out with time, as the outlook of the over-all community changed. Let's take a possible scenario. Can you imagine someone calling 911: COMPLAINANT: Hello, hello? Is this the police? I'd like to report a crime! POLICE: Go ahead, lady.. COMPLAINANT: My neighbor has just committed masturbation! POLICE: Wha-a-a-?? Har de har har... I would suspect that the policeman answering the 911 call would be too broken up to even think of asking the complainant how she knew her neighbor had just masturbated. Was she peeking? Probably also a "crime".... And so on... According to the article I cited in my previous post,most laws (not just laws about sex) on the books in this country are so "archaic," that nobody even thinks of enforcing them. In some cases, they may never have been enforced. (As in the example above: how would you prove the "crime" of masturbation?) jbe