AutoBanter - View Single Post - More power to the police in high speed pursuit

**Joe[_63_]** · May 11th 07, 10:48 PM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang

(Brent P) wrote in
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> In article >, Joe wrote:
>> (Brent P) wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> In article >, Joe wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If that's the way you feel, kill file me then...
>>>
>>>> I don't use a killfile. At any rate, you don't offend me in the
>>>> least. I'm simply saying that starting off with an absurd
>>>> generality puts you right in the troll camp.
>>>
>>> If I am troll, why are you feeding me?
>>
>> I'm not feeding, I simply want to know why you came up with such a
>> glittering generality.
>
> It's simple mathematics.
>
> Let's 1% of drivers pulled over flee.
> Of 1,000 stops, 10 will flee.
> Let's now stop the policy of defing moving at the normal speed of
> traffic a a violation. Say that reduces the number of stops by 50%.
> Now there are 500 stops. 5 will flee.
>
> Does that example with arbitary numbers help your understanding?

Arbitrary numbers = hypothetical at best. At this point, you are
strictly talking theory. So your statement is still a glittering
generality with no basis in fact.

>>> You can't be bothered....
>>
>> Exactly.
>
> Makes it hard to understand that way.

On the contrary. The KISS theory rules. No wiggle room that way.

>>>> Now don't go telling me I'm a "law-is-law" type, because you have
>>>> no idea what "type" I am. I'm not upset at all. Remember, my
>>>> first post to you about all this stuff was to call you a freakin'
>>>> idiot. So far you've done nothing to make me want to take that
>>>> back.
>>>
>>> But you're not a troll.... *snort*
>>
>> Nope. Just real curious as to what's behind your less-than-50-word
>> statement above.
>
> Simple mathematics and decades of study that shows no safety benefit
> to underposted speed limits.

That's quite a departure from your original statement.