Police pursuit ends deadly

[FrizzleFried]

Some crazy arguments go on in here, but there is absolutely no reason why that cop should have jumped on that car in the first place and then be forced to use deadly force to regain control of the situation.

For example:

http://www.newsnet5.com/video/14011479/index.html

here is the page before if that one fails to load:

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/14012046/detail.html?subid=10101081

The video at that link shows an interview with the innocent passenger explaining that the cop jumped on top of the vehicle and, near the end of the video, you can clearly see the cop perched on his knees on the hood of the motionless vehicle.   The vehicle starts up again very quickly, placing the cop in potentially mortal danger, but why was the cop kneeling on the motionless vehicle in the first place?  I guess he saw one too many Stallone movies.   

The perpetrator obviously needed to be stopped, but this kind of on-the-spot death sentencing just can't be tolerated.  The police are there to enforce the law, not to be the judge, jury and executioner.

Watched the video...read the text...my opinion hasn't changed.  The guy is responsible for his own death.

[gonzo90017]

Have we not learned anything from comic books. Peter Parker watches a crime happen. Lets the criminal get away. Next thing you know that same criminal kills his uncle. Is that the kind of world you wan't to live in?

[jbox]

I agree! Kill them all I say! Can we start with the ones who speed and work our way down to the tax cheats from there? 

[danny_galaga]

Another person I'd listen to if he'd walk in the shoes of a policeman for a week.  Shoot the radiator...shoot the tire...HAHAHA...You people aren't that dense are you?  I mean,  this is a put-on,  right?

yes, it sounds silly, yet to me not quite as silly as say, JUMPING ONTO THE BONNET OF A CAR WITH A MADMAN DRIVING. i say shoot the radiator because at least twice there were idiot cops STANDING IN FRONT OF THE CAR. i would never say shoot the tires. thats hollywood stuff. but shooting into the front of the car is easy. sort of the vehicular equivalent of shooting someone in the torso- you are bound to cause damage. you are bound to hit something that will kill the car, rather than the driver.

but i guess really it would be much easier to jump onto the bonnet of a car with a crazed driver in it and then kneel on one knee and shoot him 

[ChadTower]

You do realize you can drive with a leaky radiator and a flat tire, yes?

[Ed_McCarron]

Not far.

[ChadTower]

Far enough to continue to be a threat to everyone around you.

Police also have rules about when and at what they can discharge their weapons.  Shooting at small moving targets like tires is not something they are allowed to do... that would make them just as dangerous to bystanders as the criminal.

[ahofle]

Then what was the officer at 3:39 into the video doing?

[ChadTower]

Video doesn't play here.  It gave me a home heating service commercial.

[ahofle]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Y08Ne0TiB8

[drunkatuw]

When a police officer discharges their weapon, they shoot to kill.  It's not like Jack Bauer who always shoots the bad guy in the leg.

Take it as a lesson, don't run from the cops.

[shardian]

When a police officer discharges their weapon, they shoot to kill.  It's not like Jack Bauer who always shoots the bad guy in the leg.

Take it as a lesson, don't run from the cops.

Jack Bauer never shoots the bad guy in the leg...but he should.
Every episode of that damn show, I scream at the TV "shoot the ---smurf--- in the kneecap! He's gonna run away!" Then sure enough he doesn't, and the bad guy then escapes on foot.

It should be mandatory for Jack Bauer to shoot each bad guy in the kneecap immediatlely before doing anything else.

[ChadTower]

I want to see Chuck Norris play a terrorist on 24.

[shardian]

I want to see Chuck Norris play a terrorist on 24.

He's a hardcore conservative Christian now. I doubt he'll be playing a terrorist on 24. It would be totally sweet though.

[ChadTower]

The hardcore conservative christian terrorist threat... it's perfect.

[shardian]

The hardcore conservative christian terrorist threat... it's perfect.

He could play a former Elite military commander that see's the government as corrupt and void of religion. He forms a militia, developed strong internal connections, and has concocted a plan to overthrow the American Government and input a hardline Christian dictatorship.

If they were gonna pitch him a script, that one might do it.

[Apollo]

You don't pitch Chuck Norris a movie script, Chuck Norris tells you how the movie is going to go and you film it.

[Glaine]

We're gonna need more stunt glass then.

[danny_galaga]

Far enough to continue to be a threat to everyone around you.

Police also have rules about when and at what they can discharge their weapons.  Shooting at small moving targets like tires is not something they are allowed to do... that would make them just as dangerous to bystanders as the criminal.

so it's not ok to shoot at a car, but it IS ok to shoot the driver of the car? and like i said, the front of a car is not a small moving object. in fact its several times bigger than the driver...

[ChadTower]

It may actually be... shooting the car is a low percentage success rate... shooting the driver, damn near 100%. 

[Level42]

If a cop would do this over here he would be instantly sacked and prosecuted. But chases like these are quite rare here...

I guess he's just cooling his anger/frustration on this idiot...

I dunno....I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.

There was a story here about "Police work" not too far from my town. Two regular policeman were called to a house where people heard "death-screams". They went over, couldn't see inside because of the windows being covered with wood. They heard the screaming. And than there's a wonderful thing called "work procedures". They estimated they couldn't know what's going on inside, they figured a kidnapping. Procedures said they had to call for help and wait until that arrived (special team for kidnaps). When these finally arrived (over half an hour later) it was too late and they found the victim tied to a chair, butchered to death (like in some idiotic movie the people who had done this had seen.........)
I would expect a little more bravery from a policeman. That's what they're freaking paid for ! And then they wonder why the Police has lost respect from people...

A cop that works somewhere between that guy on the hood of that car and the one's going to this kidnapping is doing a pretty good job I guess...