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It’s not worth the danger of the chase for a traffic violation, and not worth the danger of the chase for the drugs.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What should police do when someone chooses not to be pulled over?

    Is it just an automatic give up because they happen to be in a car? They can do whatever they want and it’s not worth trying to enforce anymore?

    I agree high speed chases are terrible… but there is no other solution. Checking their plates only works if they aren’t obscured, and if police weren’t allowed to chase, there isn’t much disincentive to obscure your plates and just refuse to pull over.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If someone decides to run, then no police should not take chase. If it’s an infraction like speeding, the officer can record the plates and issue a fine for the infraction as well as evading police officers. You know, like what happens when police take chase.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Can you address the other part, how to deal with people obscuring their plates… it’s already way too common, what would happen if obscured plates and not pulling over meant you couldn’t be caught for any crime? Car chases are sometimes currently the only way to solve a problem that needs to be solved. And no matter how safe the officers try to make it, which most of them do, there is of course automatically elevated risk.

        Ideally we need a different solution, but we don’t have one yet.

        • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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          1 year ago

          Obscured plates? There’s a guy in NYC that goes around and fixes them on parked cars. (NYPD can’t be bothered.) That seems like a fine way, though, tow and impound the cars when they’re parked.

          • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            …tow and impound the cars when they’re parked.

            But there’d be no chase, no inherent danger, no exciting video for the 6:00 News, and no 'roided up cops would get the chance to say, “You think you can run from me, fucker?”

            And all that is the whole point of the chase.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Mail them a ticket. That’s it. Unless the person fleeing is KNOWN to be a serious danger to others, in the sense that they are likely to hurt or kill someone.

      A chase is somewhat justified, for instance, in the situation of someone driving around in a completely maniacal way that is nearly certain to result in injury or death of a third party.