greenwald
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On ADVRider.com someone posted the NYPD has a no-chase/persue policy. Which, to a point I can understand. So these vermin know it, and amass in numbers the cops could not reasonbly handle, ride unlicensed bikes in large packs so the cops again won't stop them for registration violations, wear full face helmets or face masks to avoid camera detection, but then have the "smarts" to GoPro their high jinks and post it on the web?
Guess they failed the stupid test a long time ago.
I say the officers should just Tazer them and watch them fall and crash. Put THAT on thier dumbass videos.
Given the prevailing anti-LEO attitude on this forum, this won't gain any traction, but the 'motorcycle-only checkpoints' that many states used to employ (and some still do) is the kind of wide net that would have caught many of these offenders early on.
Fines and consequences for no registration or endorsement, illegal equipment, improper modifications, weapons violations, impairment, etc., along with loss of license and ultimately, confiscation of a bike, would have gone a long way to thinning the ranks of these 'idiot gangs.'
Given that riding on public streets is a privilege and not a 'constitutional right,' I'd have no problem with the occasional inconvenience of such check-points, since my cycle is within all legal compliance and I have nothing to fear; I have surrendered no freedoms. Heck - I'd even hang around with a picnic lunch just to watch 'Dumb and Dumber' get pinched.
Learned in a call from my son last night that the ramifications of this highly publicized incident has already trickled up to the military. Effective immediately, any accident on a motorcycle, regardless of fault, results in a suspension of riding privileges until the soldier meets with a command-level officer or higher for 'consultation.' Additional visibility requirements also being considered as mandatory.
The problem with Darwin is that it takes too dang long to weed out the inferior species.