SEVEN TEENAGERS KILLED IN N. C.

There is something seriously wrong with our country and with manhood when service in the armed forces is viewed as a punishment instead of a privilege.

I may have mis-spoke, and I certainly did not want to offend. But I wanted to say that there were a lot of punks (not car thieves (or pilferies) LOL) in my high school that could have benefited from a couple months of boot.

You really are clueless. It sounds like enough people have jumped on your case though.
Pursuits at speeds over 50(there are slow pursuits,failure to yield, medical and drunks) result in quick and sudden actions by both the pursued and the cops. All police agencies have pursuit policies that attempt to minimalize the danger to others, if no other reason than to reduce the civil liability from people with your lack of knowledge. It would be completely unreasonable to put the onus on the cop to know who is in the car, their ages, their guilt or innocence etc.
A high speed chase at night with an erratic driver the cop is trying to stay focused on the chase, getting the information out to other patrol cars, determining if he can see the car's tag( if he can get close enough,) calling it in to see if it is stolen, and trying to see if anyone is armed, throwing evidence out the window, etc. He has to worry about other cars, his policy, his safety, whether he will wreck, whether he will be shot and killed, whether his car will be rammed (happens quite often) where his backup is where they could bail, what direction and what roads they may take etc. Now compress this into minutes or seconds.
You look at it after the fact when they pull the bodies out of the creek and then identify them and then find out they are thirteen. It is impossible to place the responsibility of the deaths on the cop. He wasn't driving the stolen vehicle. He didn't want to kill anybody. He want's to stop bad people from committing crimes. He wants to protect people even when they are as completely clueless as you. I would bet this months pay he would have given anything not to have those kids die. He would have rather arrested them. I also know he had to chase the unknown occupants in the stolen car. It was his duty. I know. You don't.

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