Good thing he didn't admit he was wrong. That would have shifted the entire balance of power in the nation, and anarchy would have ensued.

Edit: gonna leave my initial snark for context, but this isn't about Uber to me. It's further information about how completely out of bounds the power structure is in the US, and how accountability for police action is continuously declining.

"Uber" gives the article some sex appeal, admittedly, but I prefer to have articles about abuses of power up-voted. The more you know, and whatnot.

Apologies for the snark, but I'd rather read this article than not. You give the officer an out - he was "confused" and whatnot - but when you hold power over the general population, "bad calls" aren't as easily forgivable, because they cause real world harm - and every time they aren't held to account, police feel a bit more invincible.

As much as I cringe a little when I use the word, Uber is disruptive to an industry, and the spirit of what we're all doing here is to find ways of disrupting industries. This reminds us of that. Plus, it was an interesting, well written story.

When you get to the end of the article, the police officer is presented as being extremely creepy.

From the article:

After the officer gave the citation, he opened the back door again and offered me a “free” ride to the airport. I told him that I had learned while he was gone that the state had just enacted a law allowing Uber. In fact, I referenced that the Governor was proud of it.

I then asked point blank if what I was doing was illegal. The officer didn’t answer my question, said there was some sort of disagreement being discussed about the law and then he told me that the driver had no commercial insurance and that if he got in a wreck and I got injured that there would be no insurance.

He asked again: Do you want the “free” ride or not? I asked him one more time if what I was doing was illegal. He said he didn’t want to debate the law.

Again, he asked: Do you want the ride or not?