Outrageous Police Action or Not?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I see where people are coming from on this, like that scene in Crash "hey let me feel up your wife a bit or I'll make a lot of trouble for you", but this isn't objectionable in the slightest. He knows he's on camera and doesn't want to look like a dick busting people for littering so he jokes around a bit and lets them off, if you watch the video they're having fun.

[macsen rufus]

Seems reasonable enough to me - saves paperwork, makes the point to the perps so they'll think twice, probably enhances relations with the force rather than giving more ground for grievance.

But it does give a new meaning to the phrase "beating the rap"

[Fragony]

The man has a sense of humor, very rare with cops. Seems like all three had a good laugh, I don't see anything wrong with that.