Quote: The truth is you don't know what they were running for. The truth is that the cops took the life of 2 people, one innocent, without knoledge of why they were even running.
You admit you don't know what they're running for, yet you still go on about "innocence". For all you know the two people just killed someone. You have no idea whatsoever about the innocence or guilt of anyone in that truck, and neither did the police at hand. They only knew they were running like hell for some reason.
Quote: I dont think they would have made it 60 miles at 100+mph if the driver was drunk. Any other reason isn't good enough to take someones life.
So now drunk driving is punishable by death in your mind? My, aren't we a little hypocritical.
Quote: If they backed off and let them think they got away they would have slowed and gone home. The cops could have picked them up later.
Home? Where's Home? How the hell do you follow them home without following them?
And don't say Registration -- my registration hasn't had my home address on it ever in my life.
Quote: But you're missing my point. Which is, It happens, cops can get around it, and this time they made a choice to kill people instead of trying to stop them. And you cant tell me that a pit manuver at 100+ is trying to stop them... its not... its trying to kill them to elimate the threat,
Feel free to come up with something better -- no one's came up with anything yet.
The latest 2 suggesstions are:
1> Shooting out Radiators -- GSP don't have partners with them to shoot a gun, but let's assume they did... They have to get in front of a car going 125mph, hold a gun backwards out a car window, and hit a 1-foot square while going that fast. Chances are far more likely they'd shoot a person -- where they hell would that get them?
2> Shooting out Tires -- Again, provided you had someone to shoot you now have to hit a target about 6in x6in -- not likely. And a blow-out at that speed is more fatal than the PIT manuever.
Any other bright ideas to come from our own resident 'experts' on what cops should do in a given situation?
