XPost: alt.thebird.copwatch, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: alt.california, nyc.general   
   From: dogglebe@yahoooo.com   
      
   On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:27:12 -0700, "Chas"    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Phil"  wrote   
   >> >No, they knew it was a stop sign violation.   
   >> And did they suddenly reach 100 mph with guns drawn?  Or did they   
   >> pursue it as a traffic violation until little Mario Andretti decided   
   >> to make it a high speed pursuit?   
   >   
   >Turned the lights on. The kid ran and just kept going faster until they all   
   >lost control. The cop was scratched up, the kid hurt pretty bad, his   
   >companion unhurt and a young girl killed in a truck he hit.   
   >   
   >> The cops didn't know it was just a stop sign violation.   
   >   
   >That's all he witnessed.   
      
   A rational person wouldn't start such a pursuit over a simple traffic   
   violation.  The cop rational thought it was a criminal.   
      
      
   >> If they were   
   >> required to break off pursuit after achieving certain speeds (or so   
   >> much time), then all criminals have to do is meet these requirements   
   >> and they're home free.   
   >   
   >Yeah; think of the lives it would save- half a dozen in Denver alone this   
   >last short period.   
      
   Yeah, think of the lives that would be lost at the hands of criminals   
   who could decide when the police would call off pursuits.   
      
      
   Phil   
      
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