Posted on 11/28/2023 7:40:37 AM PST by Rusty0604
An international human rights organization said Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) border security initiatives were to blame for dozens of fatalities that resulted from police pursuits of suspected human smuggling vehicles near the border with Mexico.
A Human Rights Watch report published Monday alleged that state and local police deployed to more than 250 Texas counties under Operation Lone Star have engaged in thousands of vehicle chases that led to 74 deaths between March 2021 and July 2023.
Public data obtained by HRW found that 5,200 police pursuits took place in that 29-month period, with an average of 1 death for every 70 pursuits.
During the traffic stops, the state troopers discovered an additional 39,100 illegal immigrants whom smugglers had attempted to transport from stash houses and fields near the border to cities such as Houston and San Antonio.
More than 47,000 people were encountered in traffic stops conducted under Operation Lone Star in the 24-month period that the Washington Examiner investigated. In the HRW data that went an additional five months beyond that time frame, HRW concluded that 74 people were killed in relation to the thousands of traffic stops.
Out of the 74 deaths, roughly 10% were residents, and the remainder of those killed were people who were driving and refused to pull over for police while smuggling immigrants who illegally crossed the border. Human smugglers often pack sedans and pickup trucks with 10 to 20 people inside, resulting in mass fatalities if the driver attempts to run from police and crashes while speeding.
Texas DPS referred the Washington Examiner to comments Director Steve McCraw made in an interview last week with the New York Times, in which he said not pursuing a vehicle would result in "rewarding the Mexican cartels" that facilitate human smuggling into the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I think I see the problem.
Jimmy crack corn....
Always on the side of criminals. Thanks HRW.
So that’s what the propaganda arm of the drug and human trafficking organizations are calling themselves...
Criminal Rights Watch said what?
The illegal aliens died doing what they loved to do. Illegally crossing the border and wading in the Rio Grande without a passport. You Human Rights piggies need to get a life or check yourselves into an asylum. Get job piggies.
In other words, they don’t want to save lives by trying to limit the actual dangerous activity, nor the incentives for the dangerous behavior, they only want to limit those who are trying to limit the dangerous activity and remove the incentives.
How dare LEOs chase criminals. Someone could get hurt!
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So, roughly 1 in 700 pursuits results in the fatality of an innocent bystander. It's impossible to know just how many innocents would have would have died if those 700 vehicles full of criminals were allowed to escape. How many drug overdoses, murders, rapes, robberies were prevented? Not to mention the other costs to our society and economy. HRW only cares about the criminals.
Exactly.
Mentally Challenged idiots. Starts at the top and rots down. The evil tools in ring these people in and the people running into the USA to take advantage are directly responsible. Pound sand “Human rights” watch.
RPG’s used on fleeing smuggler vehicles eliminate fatal wrecks
I don’t know what that is.
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