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  • This completely depends on the ratios and the crimes and a lot of other factors. What if the person fleeing is a suspected murderer? I’d rather see a police chase potentially endangering innocents than allowing someone definitely endangering innocents walk free.

    Another example, which is very common, is that the person fleeing is under the influence of some drug. Allowing that person to drive off is also endangering innocents, sometimes more and sometimes less than a police chase would.

    My point is that police chases are not something you can just get rid of completely and think you’re protecting the public. But I agree with the purpose of the article, if there has been a huge increase in dangerous police chases after some change in leadership, it’s very likely that the police are to blame for bad decision making on whether to give chase or not.

    Again, as I said before, my original comment was replying to the idea of never giving chase and always trying to catch them later, which is not always the best option.


  • That’s not comparable lol? You do realise it’s possible for police to give chase without endangering the surrounding people?

    If it’s a common occurrence that innocents are being endangered by police chases then the police are obviously to be blamed for dangerous pursuits.

    My former comment was simply stating the reason why police give chase at all, instead of letting everyone off the hook if they feel like not stopping. Not really sure why people are downvoting…










  • TaTTe@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneArteries rule
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    2 months ago

    “Your body - your choice” refers to the basic human right that you’re your own master and no one else can own/control you.

    It’s especially used in the discussion about whether abortion should be legal or not, where it refers to the fact that the fetus in a pregnant person is indeed part of that person, and they are allowed to do what they want with their own body (e.g. abortion).

    The post mentions the opposite, “your body, our choice” which refers to the anti-abortion movement where people, often due to religious reasons, think they should have control over a pregnant person’s body, rather than the pregnant person themself.