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Every police chase is a danger to innocent people’s lives. Some chases are necessary, but a broken taillight is not worth that risk.

  • YonderCrawdad@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So when someone is evasive to police we should just go to their house later? It’s called probable cause and you don’t know if the people in the car are dangerous. I’m not a great supporter of the police but the hot takes in this thread are disappointingly dumb.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah let’s just make assumptions and put even more people’s lives in danger

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        10 months ago

        So if you were pulling someone over for a valid reason and they fled, you would just be like oh well I guess they got away? interesting mental gymnastics going on here, why do people let their blind hatred of a group subvert common sense?

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          10 months ago

          “common sense”?

          you do know that what you suggested ironically is literally what happens in sane countries, right?

          you try to ignore the police because of a broken tail light? they’ll just summon you to court, they have your plates. and you’ll be fined for fleeing the police and probably lose your driver’s license, at least temporarily and if it’s a temporary revocation you’ll definitely be required to attend further driver’s training at your own expense before you’re allowed to drive again.

          you’re not home or pretend not to be? they’ll track you down and either deliver the summons directly or just arrest you.

          that’s normal. that’s the normal thing to happen.

          you know what’s not normal? Killing people because they don’t want to talk to you!