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Police impunity generally sucks.
Police impunity generally sucks
Good job there doesn't seem to be any here then.
Actually, when you read the article, it’s a non story. ‘A decision is due’... ‘could be prosecuted’... well, dur; whenever a member of public (even if they are a suspect) is injured significantly during an interaction with police I would certainly hope that there would be an investigation, with a possible outcome being that some one ‘could be prosecuted’ IF they have overstepped the mark. There’s absolutely no indication that that is the case here though.
100% v8ninety, standard process after such an incident to review if the action was proportional and suitable in the circumstances.
e. g. If the lad had pulled over when attempted to be stopped, on a random police stop late at night and the copper drove in to him, then right to prosecute.
If lad was fleeing following a crime bing committed and putting member of public in further danger a d the opportunity to perform this manoeuvre where no other member of public could be harmed and would result in arrest of the suspect, where the driver had been trained and followed the procedure , crack on son here's a sticker for the car.
"That, Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability."
100% v8ninety, standard process after such an incident to review if the action was proportional and suitable in the circumstances.
Surely the police officer who knocked the rider off should be chased down the street by a car and run over. Ask questions later and all that....
"review if the action"
Does depend on the type of review and purpose. Not if the point of the review is a power struggle within the Home Office using a police officer as a pawn.
Supposing you made a mistake at work. Would the correct action be for you and your boss to sit down and discuss for half an hour or for you to be arrested?
Even more tricky if you were carrying out company policy.
This criminal investigation thing doesn't happen in any other industry, except possibly the military and merchant shipping. As a doctor if one of your patients dies then you aren't automatically arrested and accused of manslaughter.
As a doctor if one of your patients dies then you aren’t automatically arrested and accused of manslaughter.
Did the patient die because the doctor ran them over deliberately?
Surely the police officer who knocked the rider off should be chased down the street by a car and run over.
If he ran/rode/drove away in a vehicle of some kind that might well happen.