There's sure been a lot of cops on the road lately. Some of them riding in the fast lane, tailing potential rubes, forcing them into the next lane where they catch their breath, relieved that a municipal shark decided not to take a bite out of their wallets. Then, there are those law lions who find a spot in the shade, idling until suitable prey roll by, at which point they pounce, going straight for the jugular. And if they fail, they'll be sure to take a chunk of change with them. Law enforcement and the commoners have never seemed to get along. There has always been a paranoia driven tension between the two.

At this moment in history, a cease fire is necessary for the sake of the species. Gas is too expensive these days for it to be wasted, especially when it's local tax dollars being squandered as cop cars idle on the side of the road. Tail gating and speeding also are efficient methods of gas disposal; scenes of officers speeding to their destination, inches from the car in front of them, are all too familiar to the lowly citizen motorist. The accident a few months back involving the governor was partially the result of the state trooper driver's lead foot.

Summer is a season of driving, and a great time to give people a ticket and a smile, but that has now reached the point of a bit much. It's hard enough to put gas in our own tanks, and merely existing is expensive these days. So why did the national Click It or Ticket campaign kick off right around Memorial Day weekend? How much of our money do they want to take? The environmental implications of the petty-ticket-giving process aren't very good either. Sure, paper is wasted, but tons of carbon gas is released into the atmosphere.

Certainly, we all have seen the new, more intimidating Dodge Charger cop cars; the ones that are probably way too empowering to drive. I imagine every officer who has had the privilege to get the Charger for the day, surrendered to the illusion that he was no mere cop, but a superhero out to preserve the law and save the world. Just look into the face of any officer driving oneif you can muster up the courage that is. If you happen to lock eyes with the dark black shades of the self-declared superhero, it will feel like looking into the eyes of the Terminator, as an expressionless maw greets your innocent curiosity. Be careful or you might just be deemed "suspicious" by the officer's central processing unit.

Nevertheless, it's about time we get

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