Preezy wrote:captain red dog wrote:I actually agree with her. It's fine to be the Daily Mail 'clobber the bad guys' crowd, until a policeman runs over a 14 year old and kills him or her, or bystanders get injured. Police should always use reasonable and appropriate force and I'd argue smashing into a thief on a mo-ped in a police cruiser is massively excessive.
If you did any research into this at all you'd know that they don't smash into mopeds at all, they nudge the rear of the moped in the same way as a car would use the PIT maneuver against another car. It simply makes the moped wobble and become unstable, so the driver (normally wearing a helmet to hide their face) falls off. Never done at high speed, always done as a last resort.
Sorry I have just seen this. I'm sorry but knocking someone off of a moped even at low speed is incredibly dangerous. This isn't the 1970s anymore with Jack Regan chasing down "slags" and beating the gooseberry fool out of them. I can guarantee under this policy you will get a police officer go too far, or hit someone innocent, cause a fatality etc.
The police should always be using the absolute minimum force necessary to apprehend criminals.