va, what process would you have to go through to have the laws changed or amended ?

Question

where would I start to have a law that is already standing and may have been in effect for many year's and the average voter or person out there that are not in the legal field has no idea that this law is on the book's . would I start with a petition and then go to my heads of state like the governor ? congress has nothing to do with state laws do they? or would I contact them to ? the law that I am talking about trying to change or at least amend is. (criminal) anyone that could get me stirred in the right direction I would apperciate any information that you could send my way this particuliar law I am passionate about having a amend in the law or the law revised so that it is not left up to law enforcement to interpret the law to there benefit. I heard a officer tell the rookie if she has not been in trouble before we will let her go if she has we will discuss it I was with my sister when this particular situation occured!!

Answer 1

Law enforcement officers are, as their name suggests, people entrusted by the government to enforce the law that government lays down. The key word in this case is entrusted. Even today, with terrorism, high security everywhere and political unrest, every facet of society is becoming more distrusting of the general public, who they suspect want to blow them up (talk about pathological paranoid schitzophrenia hey?), and these are the people in high positions of power. Trust takes a long time to develop, and so a chain of command has been established whereby the more dangerous and the longer time you spend serving the government's interests, the better the departments of that government will treat you, including law enforcement. There are likewise stereotype offenders in the gen. pop. that police target, for the same reason: less service to the gov't = worse treatment.
The point of all this is to emphasize that a government is not going to allow a law to be amended, changed or repealed that takes responsibility away from the people the gov't trusts, so that the gen. pop. is a little more comfortable.
So my answer then, is if you want something done that a powerful force is against, you need to be more powerful that that force, or atleast a threat to their sense of power. This means building gen. pop. support for your cause, not by petition (these are ignored without the following), and not with a public rally in a park that affects noone, but with actions that undermine the power that government wields over the gen. pop. and sending that message up the chain of command that they are losing control and must yield to your demands. Always remember, you are not at war with the government, they are not your enemy! you are revolting (starting a revolution) that will benefit both you and them, and you are asking assertively for their help in justifying such change. Guns, violence, aggression and injury/death will not solve anything; infact it will make it worse, escalating out of control where all concerned forget the point and just try to stay alive and out of jail (how did I get myself into this mess?). This is not only about improving crime - anticrime interaction procedures, but about maintaining societal peace. It's about sending a big message of popular dissatisfaction and unrest, not with handcuffs and cellbars. Play smart, not hard!