From: "Phil Payne" 

> So they got one right.  You have a problem with this ruling.  It was 8 to
1
> wasn't it?  Nothing unusual, it merely says that the lives of fleeing
felons
> are not as valuable to society as the lives of the innocent they threaten
to
> kill with their illegal behavior.

Apprehending a fleeing suspect always involves risk.  Even a rugby tackle
on concrete can prove fatal.

The fact that there's machinery involved doesn's really make much difference.

In the Beshenivsky case, the report of a "silver car" was rapidly
passed to CCTV who found it leaving the town and programmed it in real time
into the automatic number plate recognition software on the M1.  The
fugitives were followed automatically almost two hundred miles down the M1
- observed at least some of the way by stealths -  and apprehended when
they got "home free".  Somewhat puzzled, it seems.

At the same time, the cellphone handoffs down the route were correlated
with the vehicle's movements through the cells and the police also had most
of the names before they knocked on the door.

And they're getting better at it.

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