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Louro

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I think it would end up in court being decided by the court and civil suits. I don’t know if it covers it or not, but there are restitution programs that are court ordered and the cost is “supposed” to be paid by the convicted persons. BUT, how can they pay their fees when they’re serving their time?

Years ago one of our brush pumpers got stuck while fighting a grass fire. The land owner brought his tractor out and pulled the rig out and they continued fighting the fire.

About two weeks later the department made a policy that our vehicles could only be towed by the department wrecker. The land owner sent the city a bill for pulling the brush pumper out of his field.

This is crazy. Why people do this is beyond me.
 

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You can't get someone on state assistance to pay they are unsueable.
You will be hard pressed to get OKC police to pay if they hit your vehicle.

They do not have insurance on their vehicles.
Money comes out of a fund and you will need to lawyer up.

Friend got rearended by OKC police getting onto a highway and it was over a year later and got less than 2500 and that would not fix or replace the vehicle.
She was out of a vehicle for long enough time to get fired from her job and had to pay medical out of her own pocket the entire time.
Zero help from OKC police.

Terrible deal for sure.
I have never had full coverage on any vehicle so I would be out of a vehicle I would bet.
 

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I'm not anywhere related to the job LEO have to do so I can't do anything but observe and comment using the information given.
We may have been discussing different incidents.
Just using my common sense that may not agree with any others, in every recent chase there has been helicopters involved that follow the chase from overhead.
There is no need to have a high speed chase. Even if criminals or felons are involved. Follow them at a distance with the helo overhead and bust them when they run out of fuel.
I understand that is the simple answer, and there are mitigating circumstances that may say different tactics are necessary, but some of those I see on TV are not necessary with the common citizen put in danger when they shouldn't be.

I agree for the most part, unless as you said there were mitigating/special circumstances. And sorry didn't mean to divert/derail the thread.
 

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We pay for the accidents...Insurance goes up....We all pay in the end for their criminal ways.....

No what can slow those chases down.....A very Long prison sentence after it is over....automatic ten years fleeing police ,No parole, No excuses....run from police, add automatic ten years when caught besides the time for the crime.

Make it known put it on TV, ...they know no excuses your in jail....they might think about it.

Sick of the criminal coddling.....fathers need a belt on these kids asses these days.....otherwise they are heading to prison.
 

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This is crazy. Why people do this is beyond me.

Greed.

You can't get someone on state assistance to pay they are unsueable.
You will be hard pressed to get OKC police to pay if they hit your vehicle.

They do not have insurance on their vehicles.
Money comes out of a fund and you will need to lawyer up.

Friend got rearended by OKC police getting onto a highway and it was over a year later and got less than 2500 and that would not fix or replace the vehicle.
She was out of a vehicle for long enough time to get fired from her job and had to pay medical out of her own pocket the entire time.
Zero help from OKC police.

Terrible deal for sure.
I have never had full coverage on any vehicle so I would be out of a vehicle I would bet.

I don’t know the details of how it works, but Okc is supposed to be “self insured”.
 

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