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Suspect with bong built into his car dashboard is arrested for the 98th time after high speed chase (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Later that evening at the cars registered address...

Cops bang on door at 3am, groggy the homeowner tries to figure out what's going on. 3am!?, what's going on? Better grab my gun in case it's someone trying to break in. Goes to the door and opens it, immediately gets blasted by the cops. The wife comes out screaming so they tase her and then calmly let her know they saw their stolen vehicle earlier so this needed to happen.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Or, hear me out: The cops that are well enough educated and trained to recognise that it's safer to just track down the guy later will also be well enough educated and trained to not do that. Because doing that would be stupid, and the whole point here is that you can and should select and train people with a monopoly on violence to not do stupid shit that gets people killed.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

i mean my experience is they only do shit at 3am when they're trying to arrest people who they expect to be armed and trying to escape. if they're just doing ticket service, they stop by at dinnertime because it embarrasses you in front of the neighbors.