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Originally Posted by Tuftus
For the love of god...
He was travelling that speed to catch up with what he thought at the time was a stolen car. He may have known that road very well and thought the speed he was doing was within his limits to catch up with the *potential* criminal.
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The car was not stolen and was not flagged as such. He was chasing, what he thought to be, an outstanding warrant. His speed was excessive for the road and its conditions. To be driving at speeds close to one hundred miles per hour into a blind bend and ridge, was reckless at best. He should have slowed down until he had established there was no risk to other road users.
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Unfortunately for him a ****ed up schoolgirl decided at the same time to cross the road.
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What has this child's stratus have to do with what he did? Surely you can;'r be suggesting that because she had been drinking the evening before, she is somehow to blame? There is no proof, that I am aware of, that she was drunk.
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Why don't you just come out and say what you mean, that cops should not chase crims, because as far as i have seen you have evaded most of Dereks questions?
Otherwise feel free to go around in circles.
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No one is suggesting that police should not chase criminals (except for you, by putting words into people's mouths), we are saying is that they should conduct pursuits according to the published guidelines.
Talking of guidelines and avoiding questions, it seems as though Derek has been a little quiet in those.
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Originally Posted by punky
And if my uncle had tits he'd be my auntie.
Would you say that every doctor who makes an honest mistake and loses a patient as a result should get life inside?
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But this was not just a "mistake." This was recklessness. If a doctor was reckless with someones life, I would expect them to be punished according to the law. If a doctor recklessly injected a patient with a deadly drug, or too much of a prescribed medicine, then he would potentially face prison.
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Originally Posted by punky
If that logic was applied we would run out of doctors pretty sharpish.
No human is infallible, regardless of background or training.
Ignoring the fact many posters in this thread don't have to make split-second descisions under great pressure - If you make a mistake, you buy another motherboard. If I make a mistake, I delete a file and re-write it.
If doctors, paramedics, soldiers, fire and police make a mistake, people can die. Not bigger mistakes. Simple mistakes that have bigger consequences. That doesn't seem to be appreciated by a lot of people. To say they shouldn't be expected to make mistakes is just ludicrous.
He made a descision which he thought was in the best interests of his community and paid a high price for it. If that weren't hard enough there are far too many people baying for blood in this thread.
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BTW, let's have some perspective here.
He pursued a car which under the circumstances could have posed a serious risk to the public. In the course of the pursuit the girl was killed and he got 3 years.
In another thread we have an illegal immigrant who is disqualified from driving, mows down a young girl and then runs off leaving her trapped under his car wheels to die. He gets 4 months.
If people are looking for blood there are far more worthier causes here.
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These two cases are unconnected and are totally separate. You cannot say that because one got a lighter sentence the other should. Otherwise the prisons would be empty and the streets full of criminals.