Absolutely and they should, in the early 90’s, we chased for everything and would drive the cars into the ground to catch them. Then it became more restrictive on offenses you could chase them and required more input from the driver in regards to speed, road conditions, traffic, etc. We saw a major change in not only this area, but a large portion of how policing was done when the admin stopped going to schools geared towards law enforcement and started attending training put on by Corporate staff/lawyers. These people found a spot where they could claim expertise in the law or “customer service”, problem was they didn’t have a clue about actual police work. To be blunt, most admin of LT and higher stop being cops are start being risk mitigators. As you promote, that seems to be the predominate training attended, Sgt get 3 days of liability training going over basics that most cops know already. LT’s get 2 weeks of this, Capt’s get 1 month, higher ups were sent to the FBI mini academy for 3 months of it. Want to know why you can’t be a cop anymore and your admin doesn’t support you, see above. With this said, watching YouTube and seeing pit maneuvers at 100 mph plus for minor infractions, so lethal force is authorized, he’ll pull up and shoot him in the head because pitting a car at a 100 mph is the same thing. There has to be a happy medium where cops chase the bad guys, but killing innocent people or even the suspect for traffic violations is hard to live with.
I agree 100% that the pursuit laws should be relaxed. It is absolutely ridiculous to have trained Officers on the streets pulling Suspects over; but then tie the Officers hands behind his back!!
This move will make our streets more dangerous than ever! Criminals will have the upper hand if they know an Officer can not pursui them!
Lets stop restricting our Precious Police Officers from doing their job to enforce the law!
Absolutely and they should, in the early 90’s, we chased for everything and would drive the cars into the ground to catch them. Then it became more restrictive on offenses you could chase them and required more input from the driver in regards to speed, road conditions, traffic, etc. We saw a major change in not only this area, but a large portion of how policing was done when the admin stopped going to schools geared towards law enforcement and started attending training put on by Corporate staff/lawyers. These people found a spot where they could claim expertise in the law or “customer service”, problem was they didn’t have a clue about actual police work. To be blunt, most admin of LT and higher stop being cops are start being risk mitigators. As you promote, that seems to be the predominate training attended, Sgt get 3 days of liability training going over basics that most cops know already. LT’s get 2 weeks of this, Capt’s get 1 month, higher ups were sent to the FBI mini academy for 3 months of it. Want to know why you can’t be a cop anymore and your admin doesn’t support you, see above. With this said, watching YouTube and seeing pit maneuvers at 100 mph plus for minor infractions, so lethal force is authorized, he’ll pull up and shoot him in the head because pitting a car at a 100 mph is the same thing. There has to be a happy medium where cops chase the bad guys, but killing innocent people or even the suspect for traffic violations is hard to live with.
I agree 100% that the pursuit laws should be relaxed. It is absolutely ridiculous to have trained Officers on the streets pulling Suspects over; but then tie the Officers hands behind his back!!
This move will make our streets more dangerous than ever! Criminals will have the upper hand if they know an Officer can not pursui them!
Lets stop restricting our Precious Police Officers from doing their job to enforce the law!