Some people believe that the police only exist to catch other people doing wrong, not them.
If someone gets knocked off for law breaking then they will view the police as fascist pigs, but if they don't deal with the ASB of the kids down the road, they are ineffectual.
In the words of Bart Simpson "We're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't".
I suspect some posters on this board still havn't gotten over their parking tickets