Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Serve and Protect, but if they try to get away it's best to let them

This is the most ignorant thing I have heard since, McDonald’s got sued for having hot coffee. This teenager suing the police is just another example of ignorance being rewarded. When is this country going to realize that it is not okay to be an idiot? I think that it is time that we take natural selection in to our own hands and slowly breed the stupid out of country.
I do not care if this teen driver was “scared” as his lawyer put it, because I know I was nervous and a little bit scared the first time I ever got pulled over and running from the cops never once entered my mind. His lawyers are also claiming that the police used excessive force, but this is how I would imagine the cop saw this “scared” kid. (Hypothetical Situation) Pull someone over for a routine traffic violation and he starts to run, my first thought is that he is up to something more, and now he is driving in both lanes at speeds excess of 80 miles per hour, this is too dangerous I have to stop it. To me it makes perfect since that this was the course of action. Statistics show that more than 350 people die every year from high-speed pursuits and in 230 of those cases it is the fleeing suspect. That should tell you something, “Don’t run from the cops!” Yes high-speed pursuits are dangerous, but it is not logical to say that police should simply allow criminals trying to escape to simply do so. If police are not allowed to pursue suspected criminals then how are they supposed to “serve and protect?”

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