i beg to differ...it happened in watauga about 6-8 months ago the clip was on the internet....Police officer hit a motorcycle head on to stop em...And yes the cop is still on the force and did not receive any punishment....So yea they are above the law!!!

 

correction he got suspended for 60 days...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...eo.223a134.html

 

Probably the best and most sensible post you've made here so far

My experience with Laser is that unless they are VERY good at hiding you can usually see them standing on the side of the road obviously shooting Laser before the detector goes off. I'm still more worried about instant on KA.

 

First dont EVER speed in Farmers Branch. The speed limit is about 35 thoughout the city and there's way too many cops for the size of the city. And to the guy saying a s2000 can out run a police interceptor....yea probably not. And even if you could you can't outrun a radio call to the cops waiting for you up the street.

 

I wonder if the officer knew that there was a passenger on the bike. If there hadn't been a passenger, I'd totally support the officer's actions. However, since there was a passenger involved, then obviously it's not a good situation.

Looking at the video, the officer didn't actually "ram the guy head-on", he simply put his car in the path of the bike. The police car was barely moving when they collided.

Sucks for the passenger, but the pilot of the bike got what he deserves.

 

I disagree. The officer ran into incoming traffic to stop a bike that had ran a red light? Yes, he did run a red light but there are many different scenarios that could've taken place. Was it a blatent red? Or a soft red where he missed the yellow light. On top of that, the officer drove into on coming traffic? What about the other people on the road who aren't involved? What if he had hit them?

Now I'm not saying that it's okay to run reds, but to go head-on to stop him seems like a pretty dumb move on occupied streets. To me this is the police abusung their power.

 

Police helicopters only go about 130 mph.... however as you said, you can't out run the radio

 

.. reply to PilotSi:
Did you watch the video?
The biker was evading arrest. There was another cop in pursuit that was unable to keep up with him, but the 2nd cop was ahead of him. The cop had his lights on, and there was very little other traffic on the road. The cop's maneuver did not endanger any other drivers.

If the biker didn't want to take the cop head-on, he could've just stopped when he saw the pretty red & blue lights.

I definitely don't think the cop was "abusing his power". I think he was trying to end the pursuit as quickly as possible. If you watch the other cop's dashcam, you can see that he was having to blow through stop signs and passing traffic in the oncoming lane in order to try to catch up to the biker. So, by taking the biker head-on, he brought the pursuit to an end, and prevented any other lives from being endangered.


Just as my own personal opinion... I would totally support a law that allows cops to "shoot to kill" any time a person makes a serious effort to evade arrest. Particularly if that person is endangering other people's lives (as is the case in any car/bike chase).

 

Streaming is blocked at work, so I went by what I read in the news article...

I guess I'll hold judgement until I see the video.

 

Ouch, that police video is pretty crazy.

I myself would never do anything like that, but I sure hope this guy had done something pretty crazy that they wanted him that bad.

The fact that both people on the bike are still recovering is just sickening to me.

Isn't there any other way to stop a bike rather than hitting like that. That just freaks me out.

I don't own a bike, nor would I ever pull a stunt like this guy did, but wow, that is just crazy.

I really want to know if all this guy did was run the red light, or was there something else that he had done previously? Was he a known felon or had prior charges?