Current Events > What do you think can be done about speed bikes fleeing police

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These people are speeding around making the roads unsafe, but they can go so fast that pursuit isn't worth it, so the police disengage. What do you think should be done, if anything?

Put cops on speedier bikes

Scan the plate and ticket em later.

Have a cop with a long stick set up a few blocks ahead.

Do what Italian police do. Have actual fast pursuit vehicles instead of Ford Explorers and Chevy Tahoes.

Make them do this:
https://youtu.be/eqLXgAPJ1SI?si=fLL3OexBTwyMiTcd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-brcR3aWpk

electricbugs2 posted...

Do what Italian police do. Have actual fast pursuit vehicles instead of Ford Explorers and Chevy Tahoes.

It's not that they can't catch them, it's that it becomes unsafe to pursue them. They will disengage, unless it's something serious or violent.

Give more black people speed bikes. Cops will figure out a way to stop speed bikes if it means beating the crap out of more black people.

hmnut7 posted...

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RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Scan the plate and ticket em later.

This.

GeraldDarko posted...

It's not that they can't catch them, it's that it becomes unsafe to pursue them. They will disengage, unless it's something serious or violent.

Clearly you've never seen police chases in the US Southeast.

Regardless though, my point still stands. North American police vehicles are dog slow compared to even a low end crotch rocket. Meanwhile the standard issue police vehicle in Italy is an Alfa Romeo, and they use literal Lambos for high speed chases on the Autostrada.

NA police in both Canada and the US need to step it up. The SUV's don't cut in anymore. My base model Mercedes crossover can outrun a police Explorer. So imagine trying to catch a sport bike in one of those tanks. No chance.

Sandalorn posted...

This.

Wasn't me.
Was my brother.

electricbugs2 posted...

Clearly you've never seen police chases in the US Southeast.

Regardless though, my point still stands. North American police vehicles are dog slow compared to even a low end crotch rocket. Meanwhile the standard issue police vehicle in Italy is an Alfa Romeo, and they use literal Lambos for high speed chases on the Autostrada.

NA police in both Canada and the US need to step it up. The SUV's don't cut in anymore. My base model Mercedes crossover can outrun a police Explorer. So imagine trying to catch a sport bike in one of those tanks. No chance.

Yeah, I've heard those states have pretty nasty pit maneuver policies. Even if the cops have speed bikes, those speeds still make the pursuits higly dangerous for everyone on the road.

Vicious_Dios posted...

https://youtu.be/eqLXgAPJ1SI?si=fLL3OexBTwyMiTcd

Damn, that pig can ride

GeraldDarko posted...

Wasn't me.
Was my brother.

shouldnt have lent him ur bike then ig

Disengage and get em later generally.

Follow from a safe distance and radio ahead to chase them into a roadblock.

BlueKat posted...

Damn, that pig can ride

Unfortunately for him, the po-po caught up to him.

Take photos of their license plates.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Scan the plate and ticket em later.

Antifar posted...

Take photos of their license plates.

Yup

electricbugs2 posted...

Clearly you've never seen police chases in the US Southeast.

Regardless though, my point still stands. North American police vehicles are dog slow compared to even a low end crotch rocket. Meanwhile the standard issue police vehicle in Italy is an Alfa Romeo, and they use literal Lambos for high speed chases on the Autostrada.

NA police in both Canada and the US need to step it up. The SUV's don't cut in anymore. My base model Mercedes crossover can outrun a police Explorer. So imagine trying to catch a sport bike in one of those tanks. No chance.

Several departments in the US have Dodge Chargers in their fleet. But the issue remains that high speed chases are dangerous. They'll still end a pursuit if the suspect starts driving too recklessly. We've had some pretty bad accidents happen because of high speed pursuits.

GeraldDarko posted...

Wasn't me.
Was my brother.

True. If it becomes enough of a problem, though, there are ways to handle that too.

electricbugs2 posted...

NA police in both Canada and the US need to step it up.

Cops don't need better equipment than they already have. They need reform, training, and the discipline to use the tools they are given safely and properly with extreme consequences for their career and criminal history if they fail to.

Ticket the bike. Issue a summons. If they're dangerous enough drivers, wait at their residence and arrest them when they park their bike.

This shouldn't be rocket science. And cops don't need rockets to keep up with them. Engaging at high speeds instead of disengaging endangers the public even more than a cop's presence alone already does.

EDIT: Fixed a sentence of backward thought.

I was watching a racing tv show. During the TV show they talked about speed limiters. Would something like that work and be required by law to be installed?

vycebrand2 posted...

I was watching a racing tv show. During the TV show they talked about speed limiters. Would something like that work and be required by law to be installed?

It's fairly naive to think that's something that people wouldn't just have removed with aftermarket mods, do you really think they're concerned with legality at this point?

Just asking. I think the fine should be steep if it's removed. We are just floating ideas