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...just the same...a driver is responsible for the results of their choices and actions...badge or no, drunk or sober...if a driver suffers a heart attack while driving and wipes out another car...that's a reason...and forgiveable...but when it's within my control and I hurt someone due to my choices and actions...I'm on the spot for it...

...key word being EXCUSE, rather than reason...if he'd hit MY family...there wouldn't have been any excuse...he's getting out cheap...

...it's easy for a supervisor who's sitting in the station or at a coffee shop to call off a chase...not knowing what the officer's seeing...and just as easy to blame the officer if he does break off and the one he's chasing kills someone in the next coupla blocks...she did a good thing and shouldn't have been censured for it...might have saved lives...
...La handled chase policies well back in the day...the law allowed us to do what we needed...but held us responsible if our choices hurt someone...most officers have that much common sense and wisdom and should be left alone to excercise it...easy for me to say, never having handled the city's checkbook...

...betcha he learns all about "you're never off-duty, you're always a cop" and maybe something about behaving like one...