re: 2 civilians die in West Baton Rouge car chase

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 Is catching this stolen car suspect worth these two people’s lives?

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The flip side of this argument is if I'm a criminal and want to steal cars, all I have to do is make sure the cops have to put some people's lives in danger to catch me and I can get away clean.

At some point, you have to send a message to would be criminals: you can't use the fear of bystanders getting hurt as a get out of jail free card.

Not very well

I’m very sorry

Yeah there’s nothing I can say. I’m so very sorry.

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The flip side of this argument is if I'm a criminal and want to steal cars, all I have to do is make sure the cops have to put some people's lives in danger to catch me and I can get away clean.

At some point, you have to send a message to would be criminals: you can't use the fear of bystanders getting hurt as a get out of jail free card.

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Strongly disagree. The message you want to send is that insured and replaceable possessions are more important than innocent human lives. If the criminal isn't endangering lives, why do you want the police to do it? That's completely counter to the generic and ubiquitous police motto.

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The police officer and his respective agency probably will be held civilly liable, and the theif should be held criminally liable.

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This report interviews Tony Clayton. He said both parties are responsible, but it seems like the police's dash cam and the cam on him is pretty revealing the state of mind the cop was in.

Going by what Clayton said, I think there is a good chance the Addis police officer would take a plea.

WBRZ

The bottom line, there really was no need to chase the dumbass.

If I had to guess as to what happened, the boy's daddy probably had enough of his shite and figured he was going to teach him a lesson by calling the police. After all he did take a car not registered to him after the owner of the vehicle told him he couldn't use it. It wasn't a car jacking situation.

I am 98% sure he was going to return home later that day. He didn't start running from the cops until they started chasing him.

Like I mentioned earlier, his family is from White Castle, when he was being chased he was going in directions he knew. He took the Plaquemine exit off the bridge..

I mentioned before that one time years ago, I was at my brother's house, who lives off of HWY1. There was a police chase involving a motorcycle. It started in Port Allen. By the time they were on on HWY heading south on the outskirts of Plaquemine the following departments were chasing this one person.

WBR Parish Deputies
City of Port Allen
City of Brusly
City of Addis
Iberville Parish Deputies
City of Plaquemine

Six different departments most having multiple cars in the chase. If I recall it was 12 cars in a single file line flying down HWY 1.

White Castle City police had joined in Ascension Parish and Donaldsonville City. The dude driving the motorcycle, hit the levee in Donaldsonville, he went back down from the levee and took off in a field. He got away.

I know its easy to monday morning QB, but if you just google "police chase crashes" there are a lot of stories from all over. And it seems like the problem can be fixed with better communication.