Get Out of Jail Free Cards are real

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

In the USA at least.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I heard about this before but this was the first time I'd seen it in an actual article, not just an anecdotal account. The TL;DR is that if you are a friend of police, they will give you a special card to let you get away with small crimes because you're okay.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

So like are we able to get one? As long as we get one too then I'm fine with it since that's what justice is.

[clearspira]

I'm seeing a suspicious lack of actual evidence in this article. You have a witness with a false identity, some anecdotal statements, a ''genuine'' card on sale on eBay, and a lack of any official statement.

[GreyICE]

I mean I've seen it before, but it wasn't anything special. Just a fairly normal business card. Had a coworker get out of a DUI because he was friends with a sergeant who gave him their card, officer who pulled him over let him go with a "stop driving drunk fucko". This was back when I was working in New York though, the NYPD has a very loose relationship with the law.

As the article said, I doubt it'd get you out of anything major, and other police departments ain't New York. NYPD has a lot of little accommodations, comes with their friendly relationship with organized crime.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

It'd just be a lot easier than yelling "do you know who my father is??" at the police officer. That only works like 75% of the time.

[Darth Wedgius]

Is this like some left-wing DAs refusing to prosecute offenses if they were done for righthink reasons?