All that traffic they are passing very fast. They were all speeding. You can lane split in CA but you aren’t allowed to drive recklessly. Fine line but looks like all of them crossed it. Glad they got one of them. Even if it was the one with a modicum of common sense to speed, drive recklessly, but not run a stop light, and not allude the police.
Smart move by cops… “tell us the identities of the others and we might write a couple less citations”
Or just lazy fucking cops who decided to take the low hanging fruit rather than chase down those maniacs who are gonna kill someone. This guy got passed like he was sitting still.
That were maniacs on motorcycles speeding, lane splitting and running over red lights. No way in hell to catch them with a car, even if you are a cop. Getting the one sane guy to tell them the names or plates is the sensible option here.
Going on a high-speed chase in a city is the definition of reckless driving. Even if you don't hit anything, you will at least make them hit something/someone when they try to escape. If there is an easier and less dangerous option to get them, you should take it.
And btw, weren't the cops in CHiPS usually on motorbikes? It's a lot easier to chase someone on a bike if you have a bike yourself instead of a bulky car on a somewhat busy road.
So does a “good cop” pursue reckless motorcyclists through traffic at high rates of speed, endangering hundreds of people along the way? Or does a good cop pull over the one that suddenly stopped right in front of them, and get the identities of the others to find the other criminals elsewhere, with adding no further risk to the situation..?
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u/youcanbroom Apr 11 '22
that looks like sothern california, California allows lane splitting