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[OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible

Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:32:59 -0700
April is a 911 supervisor. The supervisor has to authorize pursuits.  
High-speed chases frequently have to be authorized by a sworn  
official. All of that takes time. It didn't used to be that way, but  
people are so litigious anymore that you need a record of when and  
why the use of high-speed interception tactics were authorized in  
case there's an accident. Anyway, as goofy as it sounds, most  
pursuits are called off as soon as the speed passes 90 mph. They  
figure that they have a vehicle description and they'll pick the perp  
up again when it's not as great a hazard to the public. So (and I'm  
not endorsing this...heh...) the one nearly surefire way to get out  
of a speeding ticket is to put the pedal to the floor. ;-)

Of course, that doesn't always work out. Sometimes the deputies don't  
properly explain the conditions of the pursuit (though that's getting  
harder and harder to do now that the location and speed of each  
cruiser is identified on the operator's screens) and they just "go  
get the bad guy." We had some "Blue Rage" cases here a couple of  
years ago, the worst of which involved a high-speed pursuit where the  
deputy finally ran the perp off the road, emptied a clip into the  
driver, reloaded and emptied another clip into him. They called that  
a "non-standard procedure." ;-)

On Jun 22, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Willie Wonka wrote:

> You can, if you drive really fast...:)
> There was a famous case in Bulgaria in the early 80's.  The camera  
> "cought" someone going 160km/h in a 40km/h speed zone...The picture  
> came out slightly blurred, just enough for the number on the  
> licence plate to be illegible.
> Boris
>


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