Jel

I'd say that it's brought on by gung-ho conditioning. Or maybe just the thought process that he is right, the other person is wrong, and whatever he says goes - complete unawareness of over-reactions. I used to do it all the time myself until about 3 years ago, had no idea I was doing it, and of course it was completely, and at the time genuinely, justified in my mind.

He shouldn't have ran (haven't watched the video, got no desire to see a human die), but if you follow it through, what's the worst that happens? The guy gets away. All the 'he *might* have been a mass murderer, he *might* have been a serial rapist, he *might* have been a high level criminal - all that doesn't matter a fuck, because you have to act on what you *do* know, not on what-ifs.

^ that tangent aside, it becomes more about ego, and not wanting to lose face, or 'lose' the encounter, eg I remember my dawning moment when I was arguing with my 16 year old daughter who got home 10 minutes late for about the 100th time in a row - I realised it wasn't about being 10 minutes late, but about me wanting her to do exactly what I said, and I asked myself if I'd react the same way if say a buddy of mine was 10 minutes late every single time he came to pick me up. The answer was no, because (I realised however long later, when I had time to reflect) the dynamic of me/my friend isn't that I'm 'in charge' of him, whereas I thought I was 'in charge' of my daughter (obviously I am to a degree, but that's semantics).

Ok a different scenario, and fleeing from a copper isn't the same as a kid coming home 10 minutes late, but my point is there's a side of the ego that is so ingrained and immediate, that the dynamic of being 'in charge' therefore you MUST do what I say overrides the logic that not everyone is going to, and that isn't a reason to take things to extremes.

Unfortunately, it's my belief that to be a copper in the first place, you have to be a certain type of person... it's a bit catch-22, you need to have all the shitty human qualities (arroggance, narcissism, egoism, white knight syndrome) to want to be a copper in the first place, to then carry out the stuff that your good qualities (sense of justice... I've run out maybe someone can help me out here lol) aspire to.

I fucking despise coppers, but I'm not so dumb as to not realise I'm biased, cynical, and have a tendency to lump them all in the shitcunt category, when of course there are plenty of decent ones around (probably), and I've tried to be logical rather than emotional in this post, so take it for the opinion it is