Mooching: Undermining Police Authority For the most part, it would be exceedingly difficult to prove that specific acts of mooching and chiseling -- or of these practices in general -- actually undermine the effectiveness for police officers to carry out their duty -- which is primarily regarded as a charge to protect and serve the general well-being of society at large. Generally speaking, mooching and chiseling can be considered independent acts of clemency on the part of private or of even public businesses, which benefit a few and generally have little effect upon the many who are not beneficiaries of such boons. Favoritism, however, certainly appears to directly undermine the authority of police units, for the simple fact that the use of license tabs or window stickers to avoid traffic citations directly impacts one of the principle components of police officers' jobs. In order to further elucidate these points, however, it becomes necessary to examine these aforementioned practices individually in order to gain a better...

Although giving out items for free to customers may not necessarily be good for business purposes, it certainly is not against the law. The only way in which mooching may undermine police effectiveness is if it is police officers who are involved in the mooching, and who are being presented with items for free in order to obtain some form of preferential treatment. In cases such as these, mooching would then definitely undermine police effectiveness, because it would cause officers to possibly become partisan in their carrying out of their responsibilities and in their issuing of justice -- which, ideally, should be done in a manner that is distinctly non-partisan.
The general concept of chiseling is in and of itself largely innocuous. If…