i was watching one of those cop car chase tv shows which happened to be about US coppers and 2 things occured to me
US cops seem to have no respect for public saftey and the ambos must HATE the coppers
The first was because out of the 10 or so car chases on the show not once did the police say "this is to dangerious, lets just back off and let them go". Thats exactly what would happen here when people are driving recklessly, the police HQ montors any chase constantly and if it gets to dangerious they just call it off, they can all ways track them down latter.
The second point relates specifically to how the coppers arested one person in paticular. Slaming people face down into the dirt after a high speed crash is bad enough (and quite likly to kill even if they are running on adrenilin), however after this car had compleatly flipped over this one passanger was trapped in the back so the moron cop comes up, smashes the back window and pulls the guy out of the upside down car. If i was the ambo rocking up to that case i would be blood FURIOUS, you cant extract someone UNINJURED who is upside down without at least 4-5 people (a fire truck basically) because they have to be surported all the way down. If they have spinal injuries it gets even more difficult.
One last point, a cop left his keys in his car and walked to the front of the car he was detaining and the suspect jumps into the cops car and reverses off. So what is the first reaction of the cop?
He pulls his gun and starts shooting at the guy. Since when did stealing a cop car become a legitimate use of deadly force?
reminded me of a post i made here about the sceen in oceans 11 where the guy runs out of the casino with the cash so the security guards shoot him in the back. Mad (i think) said that would be concidered murder in the US. Well aparently not
US cops seem to have no respect for public saftey and the ambos must HATE the coppers
The first was because out of the 10 or so car chases on the show not once did the police say "this is to dangerious, lets just back off and let them go". Thats exactly what would happen here when people are driving recklessly, the police HQ montors any chase constantly and if it gets to dangerious they just call it off, they can all ways track them down latter.
The second point relates specifically to how the coppers arested one person in paticular. Slaming people face down into the dirt after a high speed crash is bad enough (and quite likly to kill even if they are running on adrenilin), however after this car had compleatly flipped over this one passanger was trapped in the back so the moron cop comes up, smashes the back window and pulls the guy out of the upside down car. If i was the ambo rocking up to that case i would be blood FURIOUS, you cant extract someone UNINJURED who is upside down without at least 4-5 people (a fire truck basically) because they have to be surported all the way down. If they have spinal injuries it gets even more difficult.
One last point, a cop left his keys in his car and walked to the front of the car he was detaining and the suspect jumps into the cops car and reverses off. So what is the first reaction of the cop?
He pulls his gun and starts shooting at the guy. Since when did stealing a cop car become a legitimate use of deadly force?
reminded me of a post i made here about the sceen in oceans 11 where the guy runs out of the casino with the cash so the security guards shoot him in the back. Mad (i think) said that would be concidered murder in the US. Well aparently not