Comment 61287

By thrillhouse (registered) | Posted March 21, 2011 at 12:54:43

"the Hamilton Police Service should apologize to residents of Beasley and Landsdale for the unsafe conduct of its officers"

I think the dangerous/unsafe-conduct argument might be a red herring, here: what's really the concern is officers driving illegally in non-emergent cases.

A police officer driving the wrong way, but doing so slowly and safely, is (ipso facto) not driving dangerously. Done cautiously, there is very little chance of creating an accident. There's no more reason to complain about this than about city maintenance crews driving up onto boulevards or sidewalks in order to do their work. Both are illegal when done by the average citizen, but both are (occasionally) necessary to do their job.

On the other hand, the cases you point out are cases where it wasn't necessary to do their jobs. Driving dangerously need not have anything to do with this (i.e., is a red herring). But you can still legitimately criticize them for flouting the law in this way.

[By all of this I mean: were they actually driving dangerously, or were they just breaking the law?]

Comment edited by thrillhouse on 2011-03-21 12:57:31

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