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New Policy Allows Police To Shoot At Fleeing Cars
CBS CHICAGO ^
| Jul 29, 2009
| Mike Krauser
Posted on 07/29/2009 1:01:00 PM PDT by envisio
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I think it should be this way everywhere. Shoot them before they hurt innocent people.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:01:01 PM PDT
by
envisio
To: envisio
What if there are innocent people in the car?
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:02:21 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(It takes a viking to raze a village!)
To: envisio
I see, so we could just eliminate those costly courts and let the police do the entire job. Great...
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:02:39 PM PDT
by
556x45
To: envisio
They should also advertise it far and wide.
“You run from the police in a car, you will be shot at”
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:03:15 PM PDT
by
envisio
(95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
To: LongElegantLegs
I am sure they would take that into consideration before shooting......
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:04:19 PM PDT
by
envisio
(95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
To: envisio
“suspected of committing a felony”
WTF?
Double WTF for Chicago cops.
I hear gunshots near me and try to get the hell out of there, and a Chicago cop gets to start busting caps?
I hope they really define “suspected of committing a felony” better. The cop better WITNESS the felony, a VIOLENT FELONY, before resorting to the CPDs unusually low level of training and restraint.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:04:31 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: envisio
More than likely they will unload their magazines and miss. Hard to shoot under pressure.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:04:37 PM PDT
by
battlecry
To: envisio
I think it should be this way everywhere. Shoot them before they hurt innocent people. That's correct, piss on the Constitution.
This will be a field day for attorney payoffs by the tax payers.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:05:06 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: envisio
... allows police officers to shoot at fleeing vehicles if the driver or passengers are suspected of committing a felony ... This will policy will be changed back, probably in less than a year.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:05:13 PM PDT
by
relee
('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
To: LongElegantLegs
So the ROE’s for the Chicago Police are now more lax than those for US forces in Baghdad?
To: 556x45
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:06:46 PM PDT
by
envisio
(95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
To: envisio
I am a retired Illinois State Policeman. Whatever the new directive states, this action constitutes a use of deadly force, and therefore must be consistent with the SCOTUS ruling in Tennesee vs. Garner.
Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)[1], was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, he or she may use deadly force only to prevent escape if the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others. IOW, it must involve MORE than the simple commision of a felony.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
DMZFrank
To: org.whodat
I've been on the range with more than one CPD officer. Now if one comes in in uniform, I pack up my stuff and leave.
In my experience their safety habits are atrocious and their marksmanship skills even worse.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:07:29 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: envisio
How on earth would they know?
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:07:49 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(It takes a viking to raze a village!)
To: DMZFrank
Glad to hear that. Hope the Chicago PD trains to that.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:08:43 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
To: SJSAMPLE
Police are allowed to use deadly force on those who pose a threat to others. Speeding down the highway in a 4000lb car is posing a threat to others. Shoot him.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:09:14 PM PDT
by
envisio
(95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
To: envisio
"Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.."
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:09:24 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: envisio
They should never be able to do that in public.A car is a 4000 lb. missile with gasoline.How many people could that kill if the driver was knocked off?
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:10:13 PM PDT
by
taxtruth
To: envisio
LOL.
Exactly what I was thinking.
And in CHICAGO, of all places.
I think it is more of an attempt to redefine the policy to meet CURRENT PRACTICES.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:11:05 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: DMZFrank
Thank you, sir.
If a man starts running with a chainsaw towards a pack of people, that would be grounds for deadly force.
Same thing for a man careening his car toward traffic.
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posted on
07/29/2009 1:12:20 PM PDT
by
envisio
(95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
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