Police pursuit policy

**cruza** · 23rd June 2010, 13:18

See they are talking about this again in the news after the lastest chase death in chch (halswell) .
I sometimes reckon Police are getting to PC , chase the buggers. Seems to me if you know the police will abandon a chase, you would go out of your way to try to get away. Is it just as dangerous to let these morons get away and carry on driving and cause a accident else where?
Toughen up , if they crash and kill someone while under police pursuit , do them for murder.

**Ronin** · 23rd June 2010, 15:47

Originally Posted by cruza

See they are talking about this again in the news after the lastest chase death in chch (halswell) .
I sometimes reckon Police are getting to PC , chase the buggers. Seems to me if you know the police will abandon a chase, you would go out of your way to try to get away. Is it just as dangerous to let this morons get away and carry on driving and cause a accident else where?
Toughen up , if they crash and kill someone while under police pursuit , do them for murder.

So if the person they kill is your child, your Mother, your sibling then you are fine with this?

Just checking.

**JimO** · 23rd June 2010, 15:50

Originally Posted by Ronin

So if the person they kill is your child, your Mother, your sibling then you are fine with this?

Just checking.

what are the cops supposed to do?? that guy who killed himself in chch got what was coming as far as im concerned

**Ronin** · 23rd June 2010, 16:01

Originally Posted by JimO

what are the cops supposed to do?? that guy who killed himself in chch got what was coming as far as im concerned

I will clarify. I was not commenting on the police pursuit policy. The OP is obviously ok with innocent bystanders dying, just curious how far his opinion goes.

**Foxzee** · 23rd June 2010, 16:05

Originally Posted by cruza

See they are talking about this again in the news after the lastest chase death in chch (halswell) .
I sometimes reckon Police are getting to PC , chase the buggers. Seems to me if you know the police will abandon a chase, you would go out of your way to try to get away. Is it just as dangerous to let this morons get away and carry on driving and cause a accident else where?
Toughen up , if they crash and kill someone while under police pursuit , do them for murder.

Please pass on our condolences to your family as they are sitting through a narrow minded murder trial

**cruza** · 24th June 2010, 10:38

Originally Posted by Ronin

So if the person they kill is your child, your Mother, your sibling then you are fine with this?

Just checking.

I wouldn't be fine if 'anyone' got hurt, But would not be aiming my anger at police. Too many are running because they know the police pull out .

**cruza** · 24th June 2010, 10:41

Originally Posted by Ronin

I will clarify. I was not commenting on the police pursuit policy. The OP is obviously ok with innocent bystanders dying, just curious how far his opinion goes.

And your happy these clowns get away to cause a accident somewhere else?

**schrodingers cat** · 24th June 2010, 17:04

Keep a bucket handy when you read this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...by-cop-chasing

A poem published in The Press' family notices today described MacKay as a "man of your word" and referred to his death as "suicide by a cop chasing your car".

The poem reads:

"This is a tribute,
From the elite of the street,
Some of Paparua's gangstas,
Brothers in arms in bricks and bars,
Life and death in the fast lane,
We remember your name,
Never narked on no one,
True to the game.

You were a man of your word and very few are,
Suicide by cop chasing your car,
We reminisce about a youngsta,
Who aint no longer with us,
Dead but not gone,
Because through us he lives on,
Still smoking on, still smoking on."

Another notice said MacKay, aka "Fatboy", was "a solid and loyal friend to the end".

I think this dickhead has done society as a whole a favour.

**scumdog** · 24th June 2010, 17:13

Originally Posted by schrodingers cat

Keep a bucket handy when you read this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...by-cop-chasing

A poem published in The Press' family notices today described MacKay as a "man of your word" and referred to his death as "suicide by a cop chasing your car".

The poem reads:

"This is a tribute,
From the elite of the street,
Some of Paparua's gangstas,
Brothers in arms in bricks and bars,
Life and death in the fast lane,
We remember your name,
Never narked on no one,
True to the game.

You were a man of your word and very few are,
Suicide by cop chasing your car,
We reminisce about a youngsta,
Who aint no longer with us,
Dead but not gone,
Because through us he lives on,
Still smoking on, still smoking on."

Another notice said MacKay, aka "Fatboy", was "a solid and loyal friend to the end".

I think this dickhead has done society as a whole a favour.

And his mates are pretty much equal to him too!!

cretins from loser city the lot of them...

**AllanB** · 24th June 2010, 17:38

Someone lunched themselves in Halswell yesterday? Missed that one!

The police are rightly concerned about the danger to Joe Public and his loved ones if they are chasing some plonker doing a runner (plus the officers involved in the chase are at risk the higher the chase speeds get). I believe this is the primary reason for calling off a chase.

I also feel for the police in this situation as all to often there is family and/or media outcry against the police when the offender kills him/herself or their passengers. In theory the police could (and usually do) say the chase had been called off, as indeed any chase is called off as soon as the offender runs into a lamp post.

Side note distraction here:
I ask why is it when there is a train/car accident that the media always report it as a train hitting a car - surely it is the car hitting the train as I have yet to see a train jump a track and aim for a car.

**Blackshear** · 24th June 2010, 18:04

Jesus christ, a triple post?

**phill-k** · 24th June 2010, 18:34

I don't usually get this pissed off about this sort of thing but it is a fucken shame the whole lot of these mongrels weren't in the car with him, fucken waste of oxygen breathing space.

My respect and gratitude goes to the guys who's job was to pursue them, a very difficult job the consequences of which will be with them for a long time, even though you have obviously done the tax payers of NZ a favour.

Originally Posted by schrodingers cat

Keep a bucket handy when you read this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...by-cop-chasing

A poem published in The Press' family notices today described MacKay as a "man of your word" and referred to his death as "suicide by a cop chasing your car".

The poem reads:

"This is a tribute,
From the elite of the street,
Some of Paparua's gangstas,
Brothers in arms in bricks and bars,
Life and death in the fast lane,
We remember your name,
Never narked on no one,
True to the game.

You were a man of your word and very few are,
Suicide by cop chasing your car,
We reminisce about a youngsta,
Who aint no longer with us,
Dead but not gone,
Because through us he lives on,
Still smoking on, still smoking on."

Another notice said MacKay, aka "Fatboy", was "a solid and loyal friend to the end".

I think this dickhead has done society as a whole a favour.

**phill-k** · 24th June 2010, 18:41

Actually I've got more to say, its the bloody red wine, time to arm the police then they can just deal to these lower than life forms without the need to put tax paying real NZers at risk - there just solved the pursuit dilemma as well.

**scumdog** · 24th June 2010, 18:49

Originally Posted by phill-k

Actually I've got more to say, its the bloody red wine, time to arm the police then they can just deal to these lower than life forms without the need to put tax paying real NZers at risk - there just solved the pursuit dilemma as well.

Go the red wine..

(having a drop 'o red m'self right now!)

**cruza** · 24th June 2010, 22:18

Originally Posted by schrodingers cat

Keep a bucket handy when you read this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...by-cop-chasing

A poem published in The Press' family notices today described MacKay as a "man of your word" and referred to his death as "suicide by a cop chasing your car".

The poem reads:

"This is a tribute,
From the elite of the street,
Some of Paparua's gangstas,
Brothers in arms in bricks and bars,
Life and death in the fast lane,
We remember your name,
Never narked on no one,
True to the game.

You were a man of your word and very few are,
Suicide by cop chasing your car,
We reminisce about a youngsta,
Who aint no longer with us,
Dead but not gone,
Because through us he lives on,
Still smoking on, still smoking on."

Another notice said MacKay, aka "Fatboy", was "a solid and loyal friend to the end".

I think this dickhead has done society as a whole a favour.

What a waste of newspaper space, wonder if they rang it thru on a cellphone?
Making him out as some sort of hero ................