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Originally Posted by jammies
I guess if you think personal safety overrides all other considerations, then that's a reasonable stance. They have a name for people like that, and it's worse than "idiot".
I don't think I need police training to figure out that if he had a weapon, he'd be using it to keep his victim scared and quiet, not struggling with her. Further, chasing someone doesn't necessarily mean you are going to try and take him down, following him just to point him out to the cops can work too.
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Sure, if you can follow at a safe distance and point his whereabouts to the police, sure, by all means follow him.
I don't think you can assume he doesn't have a weapon just because he didn't show it already. Maybe he was just beatin his girlfriend and didn't need to show his gun (she already knew he carries). There are about a million and one other ridiculous situations I could come up with that end up with you getting harmed after chasing said bad guy down.
I'd love to get an actual CPS officer in here. Im nearly positive they'd say the same thing they do with every situation "call 911 and report the situation as best you ca, trying to be a hero helps nobody"