I'm suprised you'd get a cop to do anything about a vehicle collision if it happened on private property.
I Aways wondered about that...they used to say they can't cite people for traffic citations but maybe they were able to cite her for non-traffic ordinance or code. maybe destruction of private property..
The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that Americans threw off their king and became sovereign.
Instead of creating new lords and masters and subjecting themselves under them, they drew up the constitution.
All authority is retained in the individual sovereign. we are residents, not subjects.
Our government has been given powers to carry out the public good but as outlined in the 10th amendment the powers are explicit, cannot be delegated, and revert to the people if not exercised. It is illegal for any office to exceed it's mandate.
This difference is why in America traffic related offenses are offenses not crimes while in the rest of the world traffic related violations are misdemeanors and crimes.
The legal Jeopardy for violating American motor vehicle code falls against the license to engage in the activity whereas in the rest of the world it falls upon the body of the person the same way it does for committing a crime in America.
Why? because in America we are free and have rights.
We are under the protection of the law and our government is bound under the rule of law.
It is the reason why American law is incompatible with world law and we can never be a state of a world government unless either the world changes, America is conquered, or the constitution is abolished.
Now in the context of what America is, The whole of the motor vehicle code draws it's force and effect of law from the operation of a vehicle on a public right-of-way as being a privilege not a right.
Governments have tried to regulate the automobile since it's invention. Every legislative enactment had been struck down as unconstitutional because as long as it is legal to have a car and use a car, Americans have the right to travel and the right to personal conveyance.
But the exigent conditions were a bona fide breach of the peace by motorists and clear public danger.
The answer was to outlaw the operation of a motor vehicle upon a public highway.
A license is permission to engage in an illegal activity
As long as you abide by the rules regulating the activity you keep your license. If you break the rules you may lose your license or have a fine levied against it (aliened)
What was never done is they never made it a crime to operate a motor vehicle entirely.
The constitution and the bill of rights explicitly protects certain rights along with a blanket protection of other unspecified rights.
These unspecified rights come from providence inherent in the individuals' sovereignty and free agency being created in the image of his maker who is sovereign and free. It's a birth right, never earned.
Unless a jurisdiction outlaws all operation of motor vehicles anywhere, It is still an unspecified right to operate on a private right of way, which is why police are barred from enforcing motor vehicle code on private property.
One thing I learned from a friend...
He returned home to his apartment with his friend and neighbor from a date (a woman) her ex boyfriend who did not live there and was very drunk and breaching the peace and trying to follow into the building.
Jason ( a bouncer) stepped between them and told the man "you need to go home and sober up buddy, your not getting in this door".
The guy attacked him, Jay took a few hits and after the guy wouldn't let up. Jay took a swing and I think knocked him out.
The girl called the police who showed up and were going to arrest Jay because the drunk was an off duty Lavista Ne cop. But they couldn't because he never identified himself as a cop and there were witness' who saw him brutally attack Jay.
During the altercation, Jason had forgotten his keys in the ignition of his bronco.
a few hours later the officers on-duty buddies came by.
Jay was sitting on the patio of his apartment drinking a beer with the neighbors (This isn't in the ghetto it was an upscale complex) and they arrested him for owi.
He fought it in court and lost.
The judge instructed the jury that since the apartment complex had given lavista police permission to patrol the property, It was legally a public right of way even though it was a private parking lot, that the keys in the ignition constituted operation, and being under the influence constituted an unlawful operation on a public right of way. He further instructed the jury the only issues they were to consider is was the defendant under the influence or not and were the keys placed in the ignition by the defendant.
Typical corrupt travesty of justice and an abuse of the law.
But it may reflect the conditions when an officer may be allowed to enforce motor vehicle code on private property
