As to the higher standard, its a pick and choose to begin with, because blanket immunity from traffic laws is not a higher standard. Its lower. Ticketing civilians for what you deem ok for you to do, again in non-emergency circumstances is not a higher standard. I remember a few years ago, a drunk driver went the wrong way on I 65, and hit a semi head on. the driver of the semi was hurt, the car killed. All over the news, traffic reports not about the drunk driver wreck, but about the truck wreck.