A high-speed, high-risk police chase over a nothing violation like this is an obscenity. I will never understand why people are willing to put up with it — why police aren’t fired, prosecuted, and jailed.
A high-speed, high-risk police chase over a nothing violation like this is an obscenity. I will never understand why people are willing to put up with it — why police aren’t fired, prosecuted, and jailed.
If the article is accurate (always a sizable ‘if’) “a trooper tried to conduct a traffic stop.” They didn’t yet know the car was stolen.
But that’s moot to me. If they had known the car was stolen, that still wouldn’t merit the risk of chasing the perp all across Oldham County.
If the car was reported stolen, the plate would be tagged in their plate reader system. He’d know it was stolen before he flipped on the lights.
If we aren’t going to have police stop car thieves, why do we even have police?
Is a stolen car worth what happened here? Is it worth even the risk of what happened here? My answer is no and no.
The risk seems to be growing for accidents. I use to have no issue with chases but more and more they are ending in disaster.
Since many new cars have a gps. Why chase? We just need to open that up to cops when the car is stolen. They could then just wait till it’s stopped to make the arrest.
I use to be more tolerant of chases but not anymore. The risk isn’t worth the reward.
Setting the precedent that criminals merely need to do dangerous shit to avoid all consequences for their crimes will produce for worse outcomes.
Chase them harder, stop them faster. The most I would be willing to compromise is statutory leniency for immediate compliance.
I didn’t suggest that. What I suggested is catching them later when there is less risk to other people.
Who are you going to catch? GPS tracks the car, not the joyriding prick who stole it.
Yes and when the car stops. Now you can arrest the person.
How?
They drove off at a hundred miles an hour, and you didn’t chase them. They are miles away when they decide to ditch the car and run.
How are you going to arrest him when he gets out?
What stops him from repeating this performance the following day? Or the next?
With all the cars he’s going to be stealing, and police deliberately avoiding him, how are they goin to catch him when he hits a kid?
Apparently the driver thought it was. Thats why they fled over in your own words, a nothing traffic ticket. They chose to drive in a dangerous manner that caused a fatal accident because they calculated that it was worth the risk to get away.
Do you believe the driver would’ve driven as fast, as dangerously, and had the same fatal wreck had he not been pursued by police?
Knowing he can evade police just by accelerating, yes, I do. And I think he would steal more cars, and drive them more recklessly, because he knows he can get away with it. I think he would put many more kids at risk. I think many more people would choose to steal cars in the same fashion, putting many many more kids at risk.
There is nothing wrong with your answers. The problem is your asinine questions.
Setting the precedent that criminals just need to do dangerous shit to successfully evade all consequences will have far worse outcomes than anything that happened here.
Guess school children need to die over property then.
Stopping pursuit doesn’t guarantee child safety. The criminals will continue to flee at high speed for some time, before ditching the car and running.
Now that they have successfully escaped, what stops them from doing it again? And again? And again? Endangering kids every single time.
And when they kill a kid this time, the police are nowhere near to capture the murderer. He can come back and do it again tomorrow.
Have you actually thought this through?
Police pursuing increases the amount of time at high speed and increases the chance of a crash and fatalities. That is why some jurisdictions don’t pursue unless there is a direct threat of violence, like someone who just murdered someone.
Have you thought this through?
Yeah, very much. Have you?
If you have thought it out, you should be able to answer the other questions I asked above.
I’m waiting.