Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "19 Year Old Impaired Driver Crashes into Police Officer" video.
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As a public employee, I know that the worst thing about this is that even though the officer was hit by this guy who is blitzed into a different universe, HE will be the one to face equal or greater scrutiny. Mandatory leave pending investigation (probably), compelled statement, absolutely drug/substance tested.
I'm driving a city vehicle, doing everything 100% right, and some day-drinker t-bones me out of the blue, I'LL be the one defending myself to the City Admin and municipal insurer, and depending on their mood that day, I could be the one fired, for doing nothing lol, for something someone else did.
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It an interesting situation and how they handled it. I was involved in a traffic accident with a local police officer, the dept chief in fact, when I was in college. Turned out to be his fault, but that entire dept did NONE of the investigation. They arrived on scene, told everyone to stay put, and called in State Police to run the entire investigation. I never spoke to any of the local PD other than them to tell me to wait for State, they could not investigate an incident involving their own officer. Guy was in an unmarked going about double the speed limit and we hit each other changing lanes, me going into the turn lane, him trying to beat the intersection yellow. I was on my way to work, and it was a crazy story to tell as to why I was late lol.
It's a sinking feeling to go "Holy shit what just happened, that guy's crazy!", and look up and see "City of [Redacted] Police" license plates on the other vehicle. I will also say in my case, the officer NEVER got out of the car or checked on me AT ALL. I never even spoke to him or was within 10 feet of him. I'm guessing he radioed in, we were like 1/4 mile from the dept, but I didn't get out because I didn't want him to think I was any sort of threat, and he didn't get out until officers arrived.
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@adamsmith2209 Compensation? How about billing instead. Youtube should make users pay for their upload hosting.
This is a video that's roughly half an hour, and it has 10 MILLION views, that's 5 MILLLION HOURS of streaming bandwidth. If you hosted this video on Amazon AWS, they charge ~$0.14/hr in HD over 10k hours to deliver content, so just this video alone would cost about $700,000 to host. All just to watch Jake here cost his local taxpayers hundreds of thousands in damages, not including the costs to try and incarcerate him, which can be SUBSTANTIAL. I know in my state the most recent figure I saw was that it costs $32,000/year per offender in State prison. You steal a $500+ laptop in a felony burglary, thanks a lot, you just cost the taxpayers a new street because we have to pay $100k to imprison you for 3 years now.
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