48 minutes ago, Chris said:

Yet doing risk assessments on the spot of hypothetical is exactly what the police have to do everyday. 

The difference was in a real situation they failed to act.

 

1 minute ago, Biffen said:

The difference was in a real situation they failed to act.

 

Doing nothing is actually a decision and at times is exactly the right one. Once he was in the city there was little they could do without massive risk to the public. That is right up until he mounted the footpath. Any action they took in the city risked hugely escalating the situation and up until he went on the footpath they didn't know what he was going to do. 

Before he got to the city they should have done more, of that we agree, it is just the details of what that should have been where we differ. 

10 minutes ago, Chris said:

Doing nothing is actually a decision and at times is exactly the right one. Once he was in the city there was little they could do without massive risk to the public. That is right up until he mounted the footpath. Any action they took in the city risked hugely escalating the situation and up until he went on the footpath they didn't know what he was going to do. 

Before he got to the city they should have done more, of that we agree, it is just the details of what that should have been where we differ. 

We disagree on the issue and I doubt our minds will meet on this.

The police do also which was part of the problem here.

We'll see more lunatics on the news soon enough.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Biffen said:

We disagree on the issue and I doubt our minds will meet on this.

The police do also which was part of the problem here.

We'll see more lunatics on the news soon enough.

 

 

Seeing more nutters is a certainty unfortunately. You are right on the police not agreeing, a big part of the problem is the rules they are governed by, they are not allowed to shoot at cars unless it is an exceptional circumstance (the Nutter mowing people down), and only the SOG are training and allowed to ram cars, that needs to change. 

a 6th person has died. 

Standing around doing nothing was a disgrace. 

 

WHAT WERE THEY WAITING FOR???

Women are worse then men 27 year old woman in echuca kill one son and other son is in hospital