>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jon Beets wrote:
> > Okay as a what if.. So the guy your chasing is doing 70mph thru a 45 posted
> > speed limit.. What is safe but still able to stay on the pursuit?
Radios can go a several hundred thousand kilometers per second safely;
license plate numbers, for all their faults, also help the process.
The LA police had no problems chasing OJ's friend's Slow White Bronco slowly.
At 08:05 PM 05/15/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>Why's he doing 70? Because you're chasing him. Killing the people you've
>sworn to protect to catch him under the premise that you are somehow
>'helping' the very people you're killing doesn't strike you as a tad
>fucked up?
Yup. A number of cities are starting to get their act together
about limiting high-speed chases through places where it's dangerous.
At least most of them haven't decide that, lacking Ignition Escrow,
they should resort to bazookas as an alternative to high-speed chases.
>Protect 'em by killing 'them.
>Protect democracy by giving up democracy.
Oh, it's still democracy if that's what the public wants,
and if they give the police more crap for losing the occasional suspect
than for running over the occasional kid while they're
trying out for World's Scariest Police Car Chases,
on that TV station that pretends it's not interpreting the news for you.
