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Originally Posted by loK2thabrain
Yeah, that 11 year old girl who got killed when her Mom's car was t-boned at the intersection definitely needed to be removed from the gene pool. It's for the better, really.
Ok, you want a legitimate discussion to your "WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!" argument, here it is, in two quick points:
Firstly in the statistics from the study I posted, 0.7% of all chases studied resulted in fatalities. Slightly more than 1% (1.3% IIRC) resulted in injury (Not death) to bystanders.
Secondly, what you're suggesting is essentially stopping the ability of police to control traffic. I'm sure you have issues with the way that's done, hell I have issues with it, but I think pretty much everyone agrees the police need to have the ability to control traffic. You remove the ability to chase, you remove the ability to control traffic. These numbers only show the chases, they don't show the much much larger number of people who stopped because they knew the police would chase them if they didn't stop.
Chases are kind of a 1% thing, and I think it's a foolish position to take to assume if you stop chasing that that 99% would continue to stop. I feel extremely confident in saying the amount of fatalities caused by traffic accidents directly related to chases is drastically less than the amount of fatalities you're creating by completely removing police officers ability to control traffic.