Keith Addison wrote:
> http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10229
>
> High-Speed Chase
>
> Helen Gonzales is the policy director of USAction's Corporate Truth
> Squad. USAction is a progressive activist organization, dedicated to
> winning social, racial and economic justice for all. It represents
> three million members in 34 affiliates, with statewide organizations
> in 24 states.
>
>
> Police officers don't drive their cars like the rest of us. Even the
> most casual TV watcher will be familiar with the car chases on
> California state highways filmed by helicopter, or the hapless
> drunken joyrides of petty criminals on the TV show Cops.
>
> These pursuits are very often brought to a close by a police
> officer's white cruiser ramming the crook off the road. When they are
> on call, police ignore traffic laws and crash their cars if they have
> to-it's a part of their job. So it's fair to assume that their
> vehicles should be outfitted for demolition derby conditions without
> endangering the lives of the officers who drive them.
>
> Unfortunately, one of the most popular cruiser models purchased by
> police departments in America-Ford's Crown Victoria Police
> Interceptor-is not equipped to withstand rear-end crashes even at
I have to say this is pretty old news for just being published.
In my home state of New York I am not seeing very many ford police cars
anymore.
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