2aguy
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One of my former coworkers was a retired Cleveland police officer. I forget the event now that was similar to this one, but at the time he said "WTF do they want us to do? If a person starts fighting with us, we're supposed to say, okay, we won't arrest you today, maybe we'll arrest you another time when you're in a better mood??"
Contrary to so many false beliefs out there, police don't like arresting people they don't have to. We only see the arrest on dash cams or on television shows. What happens afterwards is the suspect fighting them in the jail, filling out police reports, having to go to court to testify...... it's a lot more work than just slapping cuffs on and giving the person a ride to the station.
Which again, begs the question of why they arrest people for minor infractions and then let it escalate into something lethal.
In this case. They had the guy's name. They had his car. So he runs away. Eventually you catch up with him after he's sobered up a bit and realized just how bad he fucked up. Or you continue to chase him until he gets tired. What you don't do is shoot him in the back twice.
I understand how you feel the need to side with evil. Most leftists do. But if we allow people to run away from police while being detained or arrested, then every one of them will do it because they know the cops won't do anything about it. What makes you think this guy couldn't endure the police in a foot chase? Even drunk, he was able to fight both of them off, steal one of the officers weapon, and obviously had more strength than the both of them combined.
But you know Dr. Joe, we can meet half-way on this. Make policy that police don't chase a guy like this, but once caught, an automatic ten year prison sentence for fighting and running away from the police. I think I can agree to that.
You have to go farther than that..... you have to immunize the police from law suits by the family of morons like this, who run from police and then, since they are drunk, get hit by a car or die from some other way........
Too many times you will see the police and towns sued if they let a drunk drive away and then they kill people......
From this point forward, it should be police policy to not chase any criminals.....and to simply take statements after the fact....
I also support the National "Day without a Cop," idea.......I created that and I hope they do it...