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[–] 126 points 5 months ago (30 children)

This is a perfect example for why the UK stopped allowing motorbike police chases. Because whatever crime they've committed, it doesn't justify putting the lives of every other road user and pedestrian at risk. And as another commenter stated the cop was likely doing it for the lulz (and adrenaline rush) as much as the chased.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Ontario stopped chasing motorcycles. We now have unlicensed, uninsured cunts going >200km/hr weaving through traffic. Only a matter of time before they kill themselves. Ontario also has multiple race tracks these assholes will never show up to.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Probably anyone doing that wasn't so worried about police motorcycles chasing them in the first place.

    Are there anti-motorcycle measures they could install, like special speedbumps or bollards or something? It'd probably be much more effective than cyclecops.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Most countries are the same. Typically in the US they just let them go and pick them up later if it turns into a chase situation. You have their license plate information, if they moved somewhere else they know who/where they are. So why risk everyonesv lives.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (20 children)

    These things run in a cycle. There's a high profile chase or two that looks particularly dangerous, there's public outcry, and high speed chases are banned.

    The criminals very quickly figure this out, and use it to their advantage by immediately driving like absolute nutters to make the police abandon the chase. There's a public outcry, and the police are once again allowed to chase criminals.

    One of the best ones was helmets. The police weren't allowed to ram someone on a motorbike without a helmet, in case they injured them. So all the bag snatchers etc immediately stopped wearing helmets.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    It's almost as if a handbag is of less value than human life...

    It's not just about those on the motorbike, anyone could be injured or killed in collisions because of high speed chases.

    A car may instinctively swerve to avoid collision with one of the bikes and accidentally plough into 2 children crossing the road. Is that justified because somebody lost £200, their phone, drivers licence, a hairbrush, a packet of mints, some old receipts, and a leather handbag?

    We've had more time with chases banned than not in recent times because the harms caused by chases significantly outweigh the harms done by petty criminals. Any crime that isn't petty has the full weight of the surveillance state behind it, negating the need for an immediate chase.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's not just about those on the motorbike [:] anyone could be injured or killed in collisions because of high speed chases.

    So, attempted murder, then?

    Luckily, if there's no cops chasing them, these law-flouting crooks will obey all traffic laws, so that problem is averted.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Attempted murder implies intent to kill.

    I think it would be difficult to convince any reasonable jury that evading arrest comes with an intention to kill.

    Law enforcement, being far more aware of the dangers involved. Being a professional organisation whose remit includes the safety of the populace. Is well funded. Has access to years worth of internal and external studies, and the advice of public and private institutions well versed in sociology, criminology, and road traffic statistics, should, in a fair world, be held liable for any manslaughter charges that occur in such a chase, rather than the chased.

    But that doesn't fit with the narrative of "grr, dickhead criminal on motorbike made me feel angry" I guess.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Do you think that crime is a one off thing or something? They'll keep doing it until someone stops them.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Do you think chasing them will stop the next one from doing the same? The funny thing about people is we reproduce! There's new ones of us springing up out of the woodwork all of the time. A constant stream of new potential criminals.

    Crime is fixed by societal, political, and economic change. By thinking big picture. Not by throwing adrenaline junkie cops after adrenaline junkie thieves. Not by risking the public's safety, and incurring great expense in fuel, training, wages, insurance, and vehicular wear at the same.

    People generally commit crime because of their material conditions. You don't fix a bad guy with a gun bike by using a good guy with a gun bike. You do it by preventing the need for the crime to be committed in the first place. Preventative measures instead of reactive measures. More social workers, less cops.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's also driven by greed quite often, people wanting easy money.

    You will always need law enforcement.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    What causes greed in society? How do you prevent people constantly striving for "easy money"?

    Could we perhaps change the current economic system which encourages mass hoarding of wealth by a small percentage of the population and desperation and crime for many others?

    Something to think about.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure the UK police will get right on that.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Police Scotland at least, do take a more sociological approach to policing, yes. It's not perfect, and they're not pushing for a change in economic system, but they do push for a different approach to policing compared with most forces around the world. Allowing safe drug consumption buildings, for example. Tackling the causes rather than the symptoms of crime. Working in tandem with social services. Prevention instead of reaction.

    Very clever of you! I'm proud of you for using your brain today, learning and thinking about something instead of just jumping straight to your preconceived ideas of crime and punishment in an attempt to "win" a pointless internet argument. Well done! Have a star ⭐

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper, and safer to follow with a drone? Just keep an eye on them till they stop or run out of gas, and then move in for the arrest.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Ive not noticed that cycle.

    Police here do an assessment, consider the risks, decide what to do... you know, like professionals

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It very much happens in the UK, here in NZ is the same to a lesser extent.

    Maybe you need to pay more attention.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    LOL.

    Maybe you need to stop imagining patterns that confirm your hypothesis.

    As you said, the public is unhappy when police are perceived to do nothing, and when police are perceived to cause an accident. Both are potential outcomes of any incident without the existence of any cycle.

    Its absurd to suppose the police have a meeting and someone says "people are getting really grumpy that we're letting all the crooks get away so we better start chasing them again".

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It's not the police themselves making these decisions, typically elected officials.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    So elected official calls the police commissioner and says "hey stop letting all the crooks get away we look silly", and that gets passed all the way down the line without one single person saying, "why don't we just assess each situation and make an intelligent decision as to whether the potential outcomes justify the risks".

    Sorry boss, what you're saying just doesn't make any sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Are you expecting the actions of elected officials to make sense?

    And if you cared enough to pay attention, the rules around police pursuits do change frequently, moving backwards and forwards between permissive and restrictive of allowing chases.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago

    All things considered that was a better outcome than I expected.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Some pretty impressive riding overall. Especially with a pillion and that small bike.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Yeah sure is.

    I remember in that Senna documentary he talks about feeling "close to god" when he's locked in. This video looks something like that.

    Like all the work has been offloaded to the GPU which is calculating velocity and trajectory and reacting to other objects. The CPU is just along for the ride.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago

    By far the most shocking part of this video was that it ended with a gentle tip over instead of 2-3 meat crayons

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    Whew! I need some cocaine just to calm down after that!

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Holy crap! That was exciting. Way better than Hollywood. Not that I condone this or anything but I was kind of disappointed they didn't get away. The way they slowed it down for the close calls. Very compelling.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    This feels like straight out of GTA

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    This is some great fuckin content

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I have to wonder what these people did to warrant such a dangerous chase.

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  • [+] [S] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    That is stupid as shit. Could've killed someone over nothing.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    The problem is, you don't often find out why they're running until you catch them. He could have been wanted for murder for all we know.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Is it worth nearly killing several people to catch someone who's done "something"?

    In many countries this is considered to be irresponsible on the police's part. Society isn't an 80s American cop show.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm sorry but that's bullshit. Unless they are actively suspected for committing a serious crime, there's no way this chase is justified.

    It's not worth risking the lives of innocent bystanders just because some unknown individual didn't stop.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    So the law depends on how fast you can evade capture. Good luck with that.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Hold on. Do you think it's legal to speed away from a police officer just because they don't pursue you in a highspeed chase through a highly populated area?

    That is still illegal. But in civilised countries the police will abort the chase due to concerns of public safety. It's not worth an innocent bystander being killed as a result of the chase. That doesn't mean the crime of fleeing goes away.

    Questions?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Incredibile skills on both riders. Introduce these people to Carlo Pernat!

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Took 20 minutes to see 1:30min of video, The lemmy is really not adapted to video, now I am pissed and feel like I missed out even if it's totally not important. I am starting to hate tech sooooo much !

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I am using Voyager. It seems to work well now. I am using the same home wifi connection with nothing else. Might have been a server/route issue since everything else was working normally. I even speed tested earlier and everything was showing normal. But I seem to see it often with videos hosted on lemmy servers.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    are you using a VPN? the video is from catbox.moe, sometimes they block VPNs

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    No and anything else loads fine just some video on some lemmy servers. It's laughable to see a 140P video lag like crazy when we worked out video streaming like 20 years ago.

    I just believe the server was overloaded since it worked fine later, and on my side everything was fine, the speed test showed no issues too.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Thank you! I'm using boost and this worked for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    video doesn't load anymore... 🙄

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    When you forget to bring caltrops.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    please don't die, please don't die, please don't die

    Happy ending. Thank goodness... I was invested.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I feel like both parties were just doing this for the lulz

    Cop couldve rammed them a hundred times but simply kept slowing down every time he got close. I guess this was the least violent outcome so good job lol

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Ramming them while he's on a bike too would have been a terrible idea as he'd have come off too. He did the right thing by just following, tracking them until they dismounted either intentionally or otherwise.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Like others said you cant really ram someone on a bike.

    The game is just to keep pressure on them until they make an error, which they did.

    When they're zipping through those tiny alleys it was inevitable that sooner or later theyd get blocked in or have to climb some stairs or something.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Way back when I was in school a kid tried ramming me on my bike with his, he learned very quickly why that's not a great idea. The rammer will completely lose steering and end up ass over tea kettle the second his front tire touches the other bike. The other bike will be fine unless you also get his front tire, in which case you both will go down.

    Only thing the cop could have done is get in front of the other bike and cut it off, hitting the other bike's front tire with his back tire. That would keep him stable and cause the other guy to bite it, which is very dangerous to even try and can really go wrong quick.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You mean the cop, or the guy trying his hardest to kill his passenger?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    From what I hear, most women would be happy just to have a guy without topless muscle photos on tinder

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    When I take Jackie's bike through Heywood:

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