Police chase in Dallas

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Watching a police chase going on in Dallas right now... apparently for over 40 minutes.


Dallas city proper has a no pursuit policy, so Dallas county Sheriff is chasing him.



/me waits for the idiot to crash.




It's on Fox News Channel right now.
 
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I hope nobody gets injured or, worse, killed.
 
HA


An officer was in the HOV lane, and the suspect came up on traffic. The offer threw spikestrips over and the car ran into a semi-trailer.
 
He just got hit on the drivers side in an intersection.



Looks like 3 feet of intrusion. Cops rushed in, looked, and walked away... doesn't look good for the suspect


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And you're happy about it?
 
Linuss said:
Considering the civilian is apparently uninjured, and the suspect is stopped without any loss of life? Yup.
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From your post it doesn't sound like it's a loss of life, it sounded as if the suspect was dead.
 
Posts like these make me fear for some people's patients.
 
medichopeful said:
I really hope I am reading this the wrong way...
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No, I have seen and worked my fair sure of high speed chases. Risking all, including life and property. Sure keep an eye and monitor, sometime, somewhere they will have to stop. Kinda like a single barricaded person in a home, they will have to leave sometime.

R/r 911
 
Yes Sasha, I'm a horrible guy. If someone puts hundreds of lives in danger just to avoid being arrested, and shows absolutly no care for others on the road, as long as an innocent person doesn't suffer, I don't give a darn what happens to the suspect.

All he is now is a drain on healthcare, and should his self survive, be a drain on corrections.
 
Linuss said:
If someone puts hundreds of lives in danger just to avoid being arrested, and shows absolutly no care for others on the road, as long as an innocent person doesn't suffer, I don't give a darn what happens to the suspect.
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Takes more than one for a high speed chase.
 
You honestly can't be comparing a felon who flees police to avoid arrest and doesn't care who he puts in danger, to the officers that try to stop him to protect tge greater public?
 
I agree, for once, with Linuss in the fact that I do not care what happens to criminals who endager lives... if they die tryin to evade police (a suicide IMHO) then I mourn their desionsm but consider it all a thinning of the herd, natural selection in action!

However, they are often not the only victims of pursuits. Consider... we all know how dangerous code 3 driving is in EMS and Fire. Now imagine that your target (the scene) is always just a few hundread feet away and dictating teh speed of teh code 3 driving. Chases like this one often spell disaster for the criminals, the LEOs, and innocent bystanders. The policy that many agencies are adopting of calling the chase off becasue it ain;t worth it is based in mpart to this logic, and partly due to public opinion that is often negative against the LEOs. It is not there fault that the criminals commit crimes, yet they bear the brunt of the outcry when a chase goes wrong. Hence, yes the policy of no chases seems, in genreal, a good policy...

Recently in my area: http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2009061597004/News/Local-News/Sonora-police-officer-Aitken-recovering

I don't know him personally, but I am told by many that do that he is a great guy that has made a very positive influence in our community. But due to his pursuit of this scumbag drunk he slammed his Black and White into a tree at a high rate of speed. Thankfully, he is alive and will recover (mostly), a fact that was in dispute for several dasys post crash. As a result of his crash he sustained a "Broken left upper tibula and fibula, Shattered left patella and torn ligaments and tendons, Double displacement of the femur, broken at mid-thigh, Broken left ulna and radius, Shattered left elbow and torn ligaments and tendons, Torn tricep muscle, A broken fifth vertebrae in the neck, three broken right ribs, and a brain Bleed" (direct quote). He will almost certainly never be the same. We can all say that he is a hero for giving his all in the protection of the community... but in hindsight, maybe it would have been better to call the chase sooner and still have him on the streets...

GET WELL SOON OFFICER AITKEN!!!
 
Linuss said:
You honestly can't be comparing a felon who flees police to avoid arrest and doesn't care who he puts in danger, to the officers that try to stop him to protect tge greater public?
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Sometimes protecting the greater public means to let them go. They are the ones who chose to pursue and by doing so put other people's lives in danger as well.
 
Dallas pd has a no pursuit policy. Looked down on by many agencies around here. And as far as I know, are the only city in north Texas to have such a policy.

If you attempt to pull someone overand they flee, you don't kno why they are fleeing. They could have just committed murder. They can be headed to do a murder or robbery. They can be osoma bin laden fir all we know.

You simply do not take the chance tgat they were simply trying to get out of a speeding ticket.

If they commit a felony and run from the police, there is no limit to what other crimes they will commit.
 
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