Police Pursuits

[TheeBadOne]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't- ARTICLE HERE (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/19/AR2005061900749.html)

There's been lots of talk about Police pursuits lately, (ie: they shouldn't chase) especially when during a pursuit there is a crash and someone is hurt/killed.
Well, here's one where the Police called off the pursuit because of the risk, and the person fleeing continues to drive like a maniac and runs over and kills two small children.
Now some are saying "The Police shouldn't have stopped the pursuit".
As for the murderous driver? "Ah, my brakes failed, ah, um, yup, er, sorry". :mad:
Looks like no matter which way you slice it, the person really responsible is never held fully accountable.
Sad that two so young are now in the ground... :(

Perhaps they need to pass laws that if you run and hurt/kill someone you get the death penalty? http://gigbitchgraphics.homestead.com/files/emoticons/confused.gif

[captain2k_ca]

Perhaps they need to pass laws that if you run and hurt/kill someone you get the death

how bout if they run they get the death penalty?

[8X56MS]

http://www.local10.com/news/4620440/detail.html

I posted this in another venue the other day. Typical Miami.

This also shows that the police can't get an even break when enforcing the law.

[fabsroman]

Yep, a police officer's job is extremely tough and a lot of judgment calls will be second guessed. Don't think it will ever change in today's society.

However, I do think the man that ran over those two children should get life in prison, or at the very minimum 15+ years. Personally, I would kill him, but society will never allow that because he didn't intend to kill the children.

[TheeBadOne]

Alabama chase of S.C. men ends in crash, discovery of decomposing body

Two Greenville, S.C., men were arrested Tuesday after a decomposing body was found in the back of the vehicle following a 10-mile chase that ended when the men's Jeep crashed on Interstate 65, authorities said.

Police said they tried to pull over the Jeep Grand Cherokee for a traffic stop at about 10 a.m., but the vehicle kept moving and nearly struck two Mobile officers. Authorities said the Jeep continued on for another half-mile before the driver apparently lost control and the vehicle flipped over, crashing into a fence.

Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said paramedics discovered the body of Jamine Proctor, of Greenville, S.C., in the luggage space of the Jeep. According to police records, he was the owner of the vehicle. He had been dead for several days, police said.

Tyson said the Jeep's driver, Carl Sutherland, was uninjured in the crash, and passenger Johnathan Campbell was treated and released to Saraland police. They are being held in Mobile County Metro jail and face murder charges in South Carolina, as well as multiple traffic violations in Mobile County, Tyson said.

"We are deferring to Greenville on much of this, because we think most of the crimes occurred there," Tyson said.

He said South Carolina officials were flying to Mobile to investigate.


article (http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050621/APN/506211253&cachetime=3&template=dateline)