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TheHollywoodKnight t1_jcny3ua wrote

Why would you seriously expect the trooper to do anything? He can’t chase the vehicle if it runs, and if the driver stops and gives the trooper grief (which he probably will) the trooper is going to have a bunch of Reddit clowns Monday morning quarterbacking how he handles the situation and calling for his job. Yeah, it’s infuriating to see this kind of blatant lawbreaking go unaddressed, but a disengaged, barely-reactive police force is what you get when you spend years calling all cops bastards.

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_jcpa0rv wrote

All he has to do is get their license plate.. it's a crime to flee

If the cops won't do their jobs, we should stop paying them

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TheHollywoodKnight t1_jcph4ip wrote

The license plate number just shows who the car is registered to. It doesn’t prove who was driving it. That’s not going to be enough.

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_jctk8j0 wrote

All the cop has to do is observe the situation. He doesn't have to pursue. His word identifying the driver is admissible evidence. And the fleeing driver will be in deep shit, because not only were they driving recklessly, they fled.

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TheHollywoodKnight t1_jcvqoee wrote

The fleeing driver isn’t going to be in any trouble because the trooper can’t chase him and therefore can’t get close enough to make a visual identification of him.

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