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The cause of the behavior (as phrased when asked) is not wanting to go to jail. Asking why people are in situations where they are committing crimes that could land them in jail is a totally different question. Typically, poverty. Also common, addiction.
Except that people around the world generally don't want to go to prison, so why do americans have more high speed chases? (assuming they do in fact have more per capita/car...)
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're asking why there's such a large population of people willing to commit crimes and then get into high speed chases.
The cause of the behavior (as phrased when asked) is not wanting to go to jail. Asking why people are in situations where they are committing crimes that could land them in jail is a totally different question. Typically, poverty. Also common, addiction.
Stealing cars (often at gunpoint) and driving them recklessly is an entertainment activity for young men with poor impulse control and little regard for human life. This kind of person makes decisions of comparable quality elsewhere in life that are probably incompatible with being middle class.
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Down in SD at least, the sheriff's office helicopters serve many purposes. They'll use them for firefighting, hike rescues (often! according to their IG), first responder to an aviation accident, loudly shouting garbled messages through their loudspeaker, etc. There's just enough high-speed/timely crime here that I prefer they use these over drones. There's some extra legal protections built into helicopters that dro…
I seriously doubt that physically rescuing hikers or delivering first-responders to plane crashes represent a large percentage of LAPD helicopter missions. I live in a nice suburb and there's one of them circling over it probably weekly. I don't see why large drones can't do most of what these helicopters are doing. They're using needlessly expensive helicopters, too.
People generally really don't like drones, but have come to accept helicopters
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You're talking about technology that's only become realistic in the last couple years. Even then, there's probably nothing off-the-shelf that would serve the current need. LAPD has been patrolling with helicopters for decades . I have yet to see a drone follow a car in high speed pursuit down the 5 at 100+ MPH.
Why do we need to follow a car in a high speed pursuit and force it to go 100mph on uncontrolled streets is the better question
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#165I find it interesting that the question is "why don't they use drones". My question is: why so much air surveillance? I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.
Los Angeles is a massive city. To cover that much ground given limited police it’s sort of necessary.
Too true. It's hard to understand just how gob-smackingly enormous the greater LA metroplex is - it's as large as some small countries.
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#166We need an ICE spending tracker.
Not ICE, but a bunch of similar data at scale for the US https://usdebtclock.org/
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#167I must say I initially wondered why the LDAP protocol needed helicopters… then I re-read the title.
No, the helicopter tracker is implemented in LDAP.
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#168Roughly a dollar a second which if you are a theater kid you know is about $31,536,000 mil a year. Honestly not that bad considering it provides a real service. I mean how much does the city spend on lawsuits against corrupt cops and other employees. According to the budget something like $300 MILLION on lawsuit payouts last year alone. Who gives a $hit about the helicopters. Build an app that tracks the employees ca…
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're asking why there's such a large population of people willing to commit crimes and then get into high speed chases.
The cause of the behavior (as phrased when asked) is not wanting to go to jail. Asking why people are in situations where they are committing crimes that could land them in jail is a totally different question. Typically, poverty. Also common, addiction.
"Asking why people are in situations where they are committing crimes that could land them in jail is a totally different question. Typically, poverty. Also common, addiction."
Can't we just blame GTA?
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There are high speed police chases (100mph+) in Los Angeles — no exaggeration — on an almost daily basis. Air support is the primary defense tool for law enforcement. It's so bad that the local TV stations have their own choppers and a dedicated on-screen UI tailored for the chases with GPS-based tracking and speed. If you're lucky you can catch one of the many YouTube live streams. Here's one from....two days ago: h…
Then why do you have so many car chases? That seems like an odd problem. There must be a reason.
Population density. In other countries they have a lot of motorcycle chases, and a lot more motorcycle based crime, but it's a crime of opportunity, which is created by highly dense and interwoven urban cores.