CitizenVectron Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Police in Canada are not allowed to have a car chase in a dangerous manner. Nor would they be allowed to initiate a shootout on a busy road. Public safety is always prioritized over capturing fleeing criminals. I am surprised that most US police forces are allowed to do this. In my city there is a small group of known car thieves that consistently get away. If followed by police, the thieves will go into the 150km/h+ range on city streets. So if the police are unable to corner them right away they will simply let them get away as high-speed chases are not allowed. There are of course some members of the public who are angry about this...but killing bystanders is not worth recovering stolen property. It blows my mind that high-speed chases are not only a thing in the US, but that they are kind of celebrated and televised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 22 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: It's really instructive to remember where police forces in this country largely originate from--brigands of slave catchers Basically privateers for white supremacists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Police forces in Canada originated from the UK, which originated out of the need for men with white mustaches to wear big hats and twirl batons around by their strings while whistling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 5 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: It blows my mind that high-speed chases are not only a thing in the US, but that they are kind of celebrated and televised. Does it really blow your mind, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 2 minutes ago, Jason said: Does it really blow your mind, though? No, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 41 minutes ago, Jason said: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/police-officers-who-shot-two-innocent-women-103-times-wont-be-fired/357771/ That's different though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 36 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: It blows my mind that high-speed chases are not only a thing in the US, but that they are kind of celebrated and televised I guess you missed this show back in the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I know Houston PD banned high speed police chases about a decade ago after a fatality accident with a bystander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I look forward to seeing this thread bumped in 6 months when a grand jury absolves all officers of any wrongdoing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 27 year old father of two young daughters, driving a brand-new route. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-ne-rush-our-shoot-out-fatal-20191206-4kjatjr4mfd5fhrxa5zr2ekcju-story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: That's different though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 HAHAHAHAHA 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Thank you terrorists for shooting our employee. Now we can save $28,000 a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentWorld Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 at least the comments are completely negative. maybe people are waking up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Dear lord it’s bad. I’m disappointed with the headlines not capturing how fucked this was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Massdriver said: Dear lord it’s bad. I’m disappointed with the headlines not capturing how fucked this was. Every headline dealing with police doing something awful had a disappointing headline. It's been like that forever, even if this one is egregious. Headlines would make you think the hostage takers are who killed this guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Yeah most of the news stories kind of sweep that two innocent people were killed and highlights that the cops were heroes and no one got hurt and killed the suspects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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