I have to support most of what you say, but the drunk driver analogy is a little over the edge for me, although I have never walked in your police officer friend's shoes and cannot say with certainty what I would do. It seems to me that the DUI is the traffic cop's equivalent of the flagrant foul, something you cannot allow to go on because of the danger involved. But deciding when to pull a speeder over is like deciding when a little physical contact has become too much physical contact. A little bit of judgment is called for in both circumstances.
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