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Originally Posted by John Satclaire  Outside some fairly well defined circumstances, running from the cops is not, by itself, a crime. Driving over the speed limit for any reason is, of course, illegal. I'm talking about someone who has not committed a crime responding to the sight of a cop by taking off on foot down a public street.
As for the DP, getting into a discussion of what's faster and can actually be implemented in accordance with the Due Process clause seems... well, this is pretty clearly not the place for that  |
I should be more clear then.
In a situation where the dude did commit a crime and ran from the police, then yadda yadda. I made my statement with that assumption, that the police were chasing him for a specific reason (
such as he killed somebody, stole something, etc.).
Okay I can see what you are talking about now. If a police officer happens to stroll into your vicinity for whatever reason then "
running from the police" or even just walking in a different direction or what have you is of no concern to me. That situation is absolutely different from what I was addressing on the case mentioned about the guy pulling up his pants and running.