Every police chase is a danger to innocent people’s lives. Some chases are necessary, but a broken taillight is not worth that risk.
it’s really not worth it… they have the license plate and can just go to their house later…
the driver is still a piece of shit for also endangering people’s lives (and the three year old)The three year old is also a piece of shit?
No they’re not saying that
They’re saying three-year-olds aren’t people
I’d like to make a cliche joke here, about how 3 year olds are more like little goblins than people or something like that, but I’m not a parent.
But I have seen a three year old straight-up knock a lamp off a table for no apparent reason, not once but twice.
Three-year-olds are cats, confirmed
Apparent reasons:
Kid wants attention but isn’t getting it; Kid is trying to get the adults’ moods to match their own; Kid is experimenting with physics, weight and gravity; Kid mispprehended what would happen if the lamp fell.
I mean, have you been around any toddlers lately? Absolute monsters! 😛
Correct.
So when someone is evasive to police we should just go to their house later? It’s called probable cause and you don’t know if the people in the car are dangerous. I’m not a great supporter of the police but the hot takes in this thread are disappointingly dumb.
yawn
Compelling point, jfc
go have your rage war elsewhere
Haha, I’m not raging but nice projection, everyone in this thread is raging because they can’t see reason over their self-righteous anger.
Yeah let’s just make assumptions and put even more people’s lives in danger
So if you were pulling someone over for a valid reason and they fled, you would just be like oh well I guess they got away? interesting mental gymnastics going on here, why do people let their blind hatred of a group subvert common sense?
“common sense”?
you do know that what you suggested ironically is literally what happens in sane countries, right?
you try to ignore the police because of a broken tail light? they’ll just summon you to court, they have your plates. and you’ll be fined for fleeing the police and probably lose your driver’s license, at least temporarily and if it’s a temporary revocation you’ll definitely be required to attend further driver’s training at your own expense before you’re allowed to drive again.
you’re not home or pretend not to be? they’ll track you down and either deliver the summons directly or just arrest you.
that’s normal. that’s the normal thing to happen.
you know what’s not normal? Killing people because they don’t want to talk to you!
I take serious issue with delivering tickets at home later. The fact that it’s your car is circumstantial. No way to prove you were driving.
You most likely know who was driving your car, and if it wasn’t you, you could identify who it was, but frankly, I don’t like it… Not for a traffic ticket where you’re presumed guilty and have to prove you don’t owe the state the fine… I don’t think it’s a great idea sending cops to a registered owners house in that context… Not with the current standards police are demonstrating.
Edit- don’t chase either… Minor speeding, taillight, ranva stop sign… Let it go ffs
In my country the rules are simple. It’s your car, so you’re responsible.
The owner should’ve fixed the broken taillight, not the current driver.
What country? Do you have annual inspections? That’s easily the right answer to a busted taillight question :)
In the UK, you would receive a letter with the details of the infraction. You can nominate someone else who was driving at the time but it defaults to the car’s registered owner.
And we have annual inspections (the MOT) or your insurance is invalid. You have to be taxed and insured or your car gets impounded.
Does the US not have annual inspections?
Quick edit: This is for things like speeding and other offences caught on camera. I doubt this would apply to a broken light as in the OP.
Same in Belgium and I assume most civilized countries. Either your car is stolen or it is not. If it is, you legally have to disclose that. If it is not, then “maybe I wasn’t the one driving but I’m not going to tell you ;) ;) ;)” is a bullshit excuse, and everyone knows it. You know it, the person you replied to knows it, the judge knows it.
I think there’s a whole-ass essay to be written on the Americans’ relationship to law that leads them to using the stupidest legal arguments like some kind of arcane ward… and actually succeeding.
Hot take: we make fun of sovereign citizens but “speed cameras are unenforceable if you don’t have a 4K picture of me at the wheel of what is unambiguously my car” is basically the same thought process.
In the US inspections are controlled by each state. Some have yearly, some have basically none, and everything in between like only during change of ownership.
So… Don’t chase them. And don’t serve them a ticket at home.
What’s your solution?
I think his solution is to chase. Which is what they did and the results hurt people. My best guess is the rewards are better than the risks. I dunno. I’m just guessing
Let it go…
What’s the premise of the ticket?
The premise is that a broken tail light doesn’t indicate a turn or a stop to other drivers, who should be paying attention anyway… It’s safety, public safety…
So to mitigate the risk of a collision because one of your three brake lights isn’t working, we gotta chase someone? Or in the case of going to their home, we’re gonna pay two cops an hours wage, reduce their ability to do anything else for anyone, and basically convict someone without any process whatsoever (unless they spend the time to contest it, and likely fail anyway just because cop says they did it) on circumstantial evidence?
Apply that to speeding… Apply it to rolling a stop sign… Apply it to 90%+ of the shit that gets ticketed…
The benefit to society for most traffic tickets is negligible at best. Let it go…
The benefit to society for most traffic tickets is negligible at best. Let it go…
This is an extremely naive view. While the cops enforcing the law are almost always corrupt and do it in a corrupt way
The “benefit is negligible” is a mistake. The fact is driving around without brake lights IS a problem, driving without a seatbelt IS a problem, speeding IS a problem. That is why these laws came about in the first place. The facts and statistics are very clear about the increased accidents.
You appear to be assuming that I’m suggesting citations be done away with entirely…
I’m suggesting that a citation doesn’t warrant a pursuit.
I’ll go a little further and say that a “no pursuit” policy isn’t appropriate either (and that sounds contradictory I’m sure, but if you publish it as a policy it becomes an incentive, not good), but a pursuit over a citation is negating, in a huge manner, the safety those citations provide…
Someone fleeing the police is a ridiculously more dangerous condition than an occasional citation getting skipped… how many people flee? 1%? I doubt it’s even that… The statistical deterrence isn’t affected by that, and arguably, the citation won’t have a statistical impact on that fringe group anyway. The reduction in accidents happens in the 99% that pull over and simply pay the fines.
The facts and statistics would be, I’d guess, exponentially more clear about the increased accidents from police chases.
with the current standards police are demonstrating, im not okay with them doing anything…
i meant more, “in a perfect world” kinda sense…
with parking tickets they can’t prov who drove either, so really the car gets the ticket…
the owner has to pay it to keep registration, though…So what would you do then? Cause obviously the coppers didn’t do very well here.
Every police chase is a danger to innocent people’s lives. Some chases are necessary, but a broken taillight is not worth that risk.
Absolutely. I’d go so far as to say that the vast majority of police chases are unnecessary.
To a lot of cops, the occasional high-speed chase is one of the job’s best perks, right up there with beating people up.
Yeah, media portrayals and other cops keep attracting adrenaline junkies and people who want to control other people to the job and that’s two of the absolute WORST traits a cop could ever have.
I went to school for law enforcement and changed my mind after realizing it wasn’t for me but I had a professor who said people get into policing for 1 of 3 reasons:
- It’s the family business
- To get power/control over others
- To genuinely help and protect people
It seemed at the time like he could tell the 3rd group was shrinking.
If you know that a light is broken you have a number plate which means that you can just send a ticket to the owner. At least that’s how it works here in Germany. If the owner didn’t drive then they’re welcome to tell police who drove, unless they reported the car as stolen they’re on the hook.
Oh and German police don’t chase pretty much ever and definitely not on the Autobahn. That’s what helicopters are for.
That’s how it is here in Denmark too. As usual, us Nordics do it the common sense way while US cops are pretty much as idiotic as they’re malicious, making them doubly dangerous to themselves and especially others.
Not saying that German and Danish cops don’t have their ACAB moments, mind you, but they ARE less awful (in part due to more and better training) and our systems constrain them much more effectively than the insane pro-cop US one.
That’s what helicopters are for.
I’m just imagining German police choppers fitted with big ol’ electromagnets, snatching suspects off the Autobahn and lifting them into the air.
It’s actually why police deaths have gone down a bunch recently. It’s also why they die more by felonious assaults now than anything else.
Most police departments don’t chase unless the person they’re chasing has done something felonious like robbery, threaten to harm, etc.
In almost any town you’ll see people bitching about them not pulling people over anymore because a good chunk of people WANT them to do this still. It surprises me every time.
Let the typical traffic stops run. LET THEM. Radios operate at the speed of light. Cars do not.
(I’ll admit I did get away once. 1987, 16-yo, Tulsa OK, smack in the middle of the city. I was speeding like hell, cop was stuck in traffic, other lane. He lit up, I lit down and dodged into an industrial park. Still can’t believe that worked. Probably get SWAT after me today.)
Reminds me of the cop who pit maneuvered a pregnant lady because she was uncomfortable pulling over on a highway at night.
They’re literally trigger happy toddlers
That’s not fair to actual toddlers. Their mental abilities haven’t peaked yet.
Each time the public asks for an exercise in discretion, the pigs go and show us why it’s not a good idea.
You should see what they do to jaywalkers
A jaywalker killed by a speeding cop is the next story I’m posting.
