The sacrifice of Kim Potter is the price we pay to maintain a civilized society

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62. That was very well said.

Regarding police chases. I think they too are often adrenaline rushes for the cops. Unless someone’s life is in immediate imminent danger I would guess almost all of them should not happen. It puts too many innocent lives at risk for police to be playing dukes of hazard when we have the ability many times to wait it out and pick them up in a less dangerous manner.

When I was learning to drive as a kid my father told me. This car is a dangerous piece of machinery that if you do not respect enough to operate responsibly could easily kill you or someone else.

Those words stuck with me to this day and I will make the same statement to my daughter when I teach her to drive this summer. These cops do meed to be trained on special skills for driving and apprehending criminals. What they also need to be taught is that just because they have learned these skills they are not always applicable.