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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.

  • Rivalarrival
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • snooggums@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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?

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        1 year ago

        If you have thought it out, you should be able to answer the other questions I asked above.

        I’m waiting.