Sorry not sorry, but everyone on here saying that its absolutely fine for police to use their cars to ram mopeds needs to GTFO.
It promotes high speed, high stakes risk taking and inevitably ends in pre-judicial killings. How long before mission creep enables the police to use their vehicles disproportionally against other vulnerable road users like cyclists.
Moped crime is horrible. Sanctioned police brutality is not the answer.
Moped crime is horrible. Sanctioned police brutality is not the answer.
This. Last time I checked we had a justice system that was supposed to mete out punishment, and none of the available sentences involved cracking someone's skull.
It is a procedure used by trained drivers in very specific circumstances- I assume that the speed of car and moped, surrounding factors like other cars and peds etc are taken into account when deploying the tactic.
Sorry not sorry, but everyone on here saying that its absolutely fine for police to use their cars to ram mopeds needs to GTFO.
It promotes high speed, high stakes risk taking and inevitably ends in pre-judicial killings. How long before mission creep enables the police to use their vehicles disproportionally against other vulnerable road users like cyclists.
Moped crime is horrible. Sanctioned police brutality is not the answer.
edit: ACAB