Police killing us again!

[MSTRS:Me]

No matter the reason, a cop would rape anyone else doing some sort of turn there.
Whilst some laws do not apply to cops, the law of simple commonsense does not play favourites...

[pete376403]

. At least the reporting didn't insinuate that the motorcyclist was possibly in the wrong this time

Give them time...

"failing to be able to stop in half the clear distance" will probably be trotted out.

[cromagnon]

No matter the reason, a cop would rape anyone else doing some sort of turn there.
Whilst some laws do not apply to cops, the law of simple commonsense does not play favourites...

And unfortunately to people near them too

[MaxB]

Now I have seen the photo, FFS what was that cop thinking?

I note the 150km/h car didn't hit anything. He probably got home in one piece. Since when has a ticket been worth more than a biker's life?

[Foxzee]

This is not an accident...it's fucking manslaughter!!!!

[MisterD]

This is not an accident...it's fucking manslaughter!!!!

It's certainly hard to see from the photographic evidence how it can possibly be less than "dangerous use of a motor vehicle causing death".

[Crasherfromwayback]

RIP the rider, and condolences to all of his family and friends.

BAD place to be turning a car round.

[Zamiam]

My condolences also to the family and friends of the biker who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When are we going to stand up and say enough! Now while I do not pretend to have the solution I am sick of hearing of innocent parties being taken out by people who the Police are chasing when “the pursuit was called off 2 seconds”. Its time the Police started to front up to the fact they are Human and generally red blooded Males and make WRONG CALLS.

Personally I’ve had two close calls with stupid Police officers

1 – Straight piece of road south of Whangarei – on cruise at 100km/hr. Police car coming the other way suddenly activates his lights pulls to the left and does a U turn. I hit the brakes, the ABS cuts in, he stops straddling the centreline, I stop 15 feet or so from T boning him. He pisses off down the road and I pass him with a car pulled up. Missus wouldn’t let me stop to rip him a new arsehole.

2 – Passenger in car in New Plymouth waiting with a green light to turn right at traffic lights. Driver hesitates for a second (no reason) and a Police dog handler ute heading in the same direction BUT on the wrong side of the road misses us by less than a foot. At a guess he was doing 80-90km/hr NO SIREN, NO LIGHTS.

Now I’m not perfect BUT I don’t have a career of persecuting other drivers for their mistakes, often harmless.

[dipshit]

Another good reason to use radar detectors.

[SMOKEU]

When are we going to stand up and say enough! Now while I do not pretend to have the solution I am sick of hearing of innocent parties being taken out by people who the Police are chasing when “the pursuit was called off 2 seconds”.

How is it the cops fault if someone else crashes into an innocent member of the public?

[Ixion]

Just had Radio NZ looking for an interview. Their attitude was basically that the police guidelines need reviewing.

[SPman]

That photo tells it all really - you'd have to be contemptuously stupid to attempt a U turn there!

What a contemptable and weaselly evasion of responsibility . Amounts to a "tough shit, we will do whatever we want"

My thoughts exactly, Les.

[miloking]

How is it the cops fault if someone else crashes into an innocent member of the public?

IT IS! because the cop could clearly see that the chase has been going on for while and offender is just not goint to pull over...so now its just a waiting game until the "retard" hits someone (for price of speeding ticket). If they call off the chase like they are directed nobody gets hurt...but sadly cops dont give a flying fuck about other people on the roads when chasing the $$$$

Acutaly i dont even condone chasing criminals (not just speeders), why should I or my family die on the next corner because someone escaped prison or something and cops want to have some fun on high speed chase!

Life is too fucking short to be killed for nothing (especialy by NZ police)!

[MSTRS:Me]

Just had Radio NZ looking for an interview. Their attitude was basically that the police guidelines need reviewing.

I know...let's have a royal commission of enquiry. That's what we need. To tell these idiots what we have told them already. But since we did it for free, I guess it didn't have the same ring of importance.

[Ixion]

I don't altogether agree witha 'police should never pursue' approach
but - I wonder, if the cop clocked a car at 154 kph, just how fast did he imagine he was going to have to go himself, to catch said speeding car, allowing for the time he would have lost doing his three point turn?

Anyone want to work it out or estimate it? To catch a car travelling at 154kph, from a standing start, giving the pursued vehicle a start of , say 3 minutes, how fast to catch it within 5 km?