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Originally posted by BooRadley
Fine. You don't see the point. Let them charge through residential areas at a hundred miles an hour, sirens blaring. Smash into every civilian that gets in the way of justice. In this day of good radios, helicopters, GPS systems, 'rapid response' , and tire shredding strips .... I just consider the high speed chases to be unnecessary.
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Police DO stop chases, or at least slow down by a very large margin if someone does that. Police push their own vehicles to their limit where they can control them safely. Most can push their cars to their limit because they're trained to do so.
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Especially when the property isn't considered worthy of defending by the legal system... you can't attack someone who is trying to break in your car.
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You can't kill someone, but you can definately smack someone upside the head. People aren't allowed to do damage, or break into your car.
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Well, civilians definitely can't protect it. So you are proposing a trade between protection of property and protection of safety? Or trying to meet in the middle?
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The safety is already protected. If it wasn't, then it would plastered all over newspapers across the country "POLICE OUT OF CONTROL!" "WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP!" But it's not. Almost every of high speed chases end up with only one party injured. The "suspect". In those few instances where it's not, it's because the party could be stopped in no other way, or all the fault lays on the untrained "suspect".
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