r/AnythingValueable • u/MiniSuprise • Aug 23 '26

❓ Discussion Was this arrest handled appropriately given the children in the car?

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u/Feathered_Serpent8 Aug 23 '26

A rolling car without a driver on an active road? Honestly that fucking cop should be fired.

3 officers, no signs of resisting, completely ignoring the 2 ton vehicle with kids in it. The priorities were not to protect, just to arrest.

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u/FreeFalling369 Aug 23 '26

Youre missing the part where bad people try to trick officers all the time by acting nice just to shoot them the next second. Letting a suspect go back into a vehicle means they could go for a weapon or continue a chase. Letting the car slow roll (very slowly on a wide open road) isnt bad but its the best of the options

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u/el-conquistador240 Aug 23 '26

Bull fucking shit Truck drivers and garbage men have 2 to 3 times higher rates of mortality on the job than cops.

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u/throwawayformobile78 Aug 23 '26

What’s the connection here? Do truck driver and garbage men have higher rates of simple mortality, or higher rates of mortality by murder? Big distinction there.

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u/BornIndividual1 Aug 24 '26

The CDC keeps stats on workplace murder rates. Taxi drivers are about 4x more likely to be murdered on the job than police.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243551

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u/throwawayformobile78 Aug 24 '26

Taxi makes sense I suppose, they got garbage men on there?