Well since a high speed pursuit can kill completely innocent people at random

We've already established that having police chase you would increase your risk of crashing. Noone can PROVE that he wouldn't have crashed if the police weren't there, but he definitely would have been less likely to.

Sure, "it looked like him" is pretty weak evidence. But "it looked like him when he drove past, it looks like him in this photo taken by the red light camera, it still looks like him in this photo taken by the speed camera, his finger prints are all over the steering wheel and this hair was found in the car and shown to be only 1 day old, and look the cloths worn by the driver in my photo matches the cloths we found in his wardrobe, and none of his allabys for the 3 hours that the crime were committed in check out reliably.

I'm not convinced that the crime couldn't be solved CONVINCINGLY the next day. That's how they should have tried to go about it too, because then noone would have died.

I'm also quite used to hearing about racially motivated attacks and even wars.

The police KNEW who this guy was, and they knew several crimes that he was guilty of. There should be no need to chase him through a street at high speed to catch him.

Are you trying to imply that being chased by police doesn't increase your risk of crashing? Because to me, that doesn't seem like a very logical thing to be trying to imply.

I don't think Australia is multi-cultural at all. I think it just pretends to be. I think really it is just segregated - people from each race stick to eachother, and all that really exists is segregation between groups of people in the same country.

They would slow down...and the unmarked officers can get them as soon as theres a chance.SIMPLE.
So WHY dont the cops do that????...even if it cost a few tanks of fuel to finally get the car theif...its cheaper .lf another unmarked car intercepted when the other was running out of fuel....they continue the trail...the assailant is going to run out of fuel eventually!
LESS DRAMA...LESS ATTENTION TO THE SITUATION....LESS COST INVOLVED...LESS DEATHS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE...less risky speed levels....and less cost to all involved.
Something very practical to what lm saying here.

So it worked, it got your attention. That's the whole idea of these commercials

The police always call off a pursuit moments before every crash. It must be in the handbook and every press release on this type of incident.

Ladies never walk bear footed

I am a lead foot (admittedly) and over the years have not only contributed to the champagne fountain and pate at the policemans balls, but have bought my very own policeman. Are they cheap to feed? I hope so considering how many I must own now.

Haven't seen anyone blame the US for the earthquake, no, but thanks for clarifying.

So in essence we're aiding in propagating a sub standard turtle to reproduce down the line; ones that didn't have the where - with - all to survive to begin with.

Actually laws force change - change in peoples behaviours and actions. Without changes in laws, there will be no change in behaviour. Ask any psychologist about the studies into human altruism....

I don’t want to stop our growth or progress for to do that is to ultimately condemn the ’have nots’ to ’have nothings’ and the ‘haves’ like you and me to ‘having less’.

It is my view that we may be better off devoting our energies to doing positive things better……. perhaps by legislation.

The more humid an atmosphere becomes the more readily it loads to dew point and rain, the more it rains the more fertile and productive soils become, the more the water tables rise, the more the ground salts leech, the more the rivers and creeks flow, the more the wetlands, lakes and dams fill. That, has always been the result of natures global warming and of benefit to man. The evidence for it is everywhere, including mankind’s own living memory, and his written word.

yes Australia has banned talking on cell phones while driving , and the have done the same with drinking alchol while driving.... but not with food or soft drink?

I find women in short skirts walking on the footpath pretty distracting too....please dont tear them down..

planting into a grass species like clover or lucerne.....these two species in particular have a deep taproots that pump nitrogen back into the soil through its nodes. I still believe that tree planting on a massive scale is needed to reverse the damage caused by deforestation.

Dr. Christine Jones: This year Australia will emit just over 600 million tonnes of carbon. We can sequester 685 million tonnes of carbon by increasing soil carbon by half a per cent on only 2% of the farms. If we increased it on all of the farms, we could sequester the whole world's emissions of carbon.

They can build something like between 25 and 30 tonnes of carbon for every tonne of product that they produce. They can be so far on the right side of the ledger that there's no need to fear being included in an emissions trading scheme.

Two years ago, 18 farmers in three states agreed to trial her ideas. In return, she'd pay them $25 a tonne for the carbon they built.

The big advantage is the conversion of power generated at off peak times ( usually just wasted ) into storable hydro power that can be called up on demand.