Driver caught with $400K in Ecstasy pills, cash after high-speed I-20 chase
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Police say they found an estimated $400.000 in Ecstasy pills in a car that was part of a high-speed chase on Interstate 20.

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It’s not worth the danger of the chase for a traffic violation, and not worth the danger of the chase for the drugs.

  • happyspark@kbin.social
    45·
    1 year ago

    The police didn’t cause the chase. They participated in it, of course but I don’t think it’s reasonable to hold them responsible for the chase happening in the first place. The drug dealer(s?) could have stayed put.

    eta: I am by no means a police apologist or a “back the blue” type, either. There is plenty wrong with how police do the job they have but this isn’t that

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      105·
      1 year ago

      What? Of course the police caused the chase. The guy drove off, yes, but if the police don’t chase him there’s no chase.

        • holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social
          62·
          1 year ago

          There’s a possible worldview where… both wrong things are wrong. Endangering others is what the drug dealer is doing (I don’t really believe ecstacy is worth this event but I digress.)… endangering others is what the cops also actively did. Neither is right. Cops have the ability to back off and find the person pretty efficiently when they have plates on their car. Also this is ecstacy not fentanyl or meth.

            • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              54·
              1 year ago

              There are no safe police chases, and no safe PIT-maneuvers to cause a safe crash. People and property are at peril.

                • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I like how you just decided to break out philosophy 101 terminology like it’s going to make your point for you.

                  The other user cited examples and made an argument using said examples. It’s a valid argument. The question is whether it is sound.

                  To that I would say, “Yes”. Police chases do endanger lives. In fact, many jurisdictions have outright bans on chases.