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Originally posted by BigGov
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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Yeah, race car drivers are trained 100x more than police officers, and they still get hurt on the track. Things can and do happen with high velocities. Do you think any cop on earth has had more high speed driving time than Dale Earnhardt ?
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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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And you can definitely get charged with assault and battery for doing so, and you can definitely get sued by the robber for damages. He of course would still be charged with breaking and entering, but it is less of an offense than A&B.
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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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Oh. You think I'm alone in my opinion? I'm just some random nut raving on the internet?
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politi...-7645336c.html
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroo...copchases.html
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That's something that should be going on in every police department, said Dr. Frederick Rivara, a University of Washington professor of pediatrics and the principal investigator of a study published last month showing that about 300 people are killed in police chases each year.
The study, conducted by the Seattle-based Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, said that, from 1994 through 2002, police chases were accountable for 2,654 crashes involving 3,965 vehicles and 3,146 deaths nationwide. A third of those deaths were innocent people not involved in the chase, the study found.
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From the perspective of the police & government :
This police chief says that most high speed chases are unwarranted , and are dangerous DESPITE THE TRAINING POLICE OFFICERS GET.
http://www.cji.net/clera/CJI/CenterI...nt%20Paper.pdf