Subj: Re: [Taxi List] Vancouver assault
Date: 12/2/2007 4:59:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: barbj2799@comcast.net
Reply-to: Taxi-List@yahoogroups.com
To: Taxi-List@yahoogroups.com
The cab driver is supposed to discern whether or not his passenger has been or intends to soon be involved in criminal activity?
Or he could be guilty of aiding or abetting?!??
How, exactly does the cab driver make that call? Even the police can't make that call, even when they have good reason to believe there is a problem.
Like, for example, when the police recently put a drunk and unruly person in a cab in Seattle AFTER he had been kicked out of Husky stadium for being drunk and unruly.
According to some news articles, the man was "in police custody" when the police apparently decided they did not want to do the paperwork and instead flagged a cab to take the man home.
The man proceeded to viciously attack the cabdriver.
The police were surely aware of the possibility of that happening, yet they had no problem endangering the cabdriver to make their own job easier.
I wonder of they bothered to explain he situation to the cabdriver?
The police need to STOP using cabdrivers to transport people who should be arrested!!
We have read so many similar news stories right here over the years.
What's it going to take to stop this very easily avoidable threat to the safety and well-being of our cab drivers?
Maybe a HUGE lawsuit against the Police Pepartment/City - or in this case the State , since it was the State Patrol -
the next time a police officer resolves a call by putting the criminal in a cab??
Barb
----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Weiszhaar"
To:
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxi List] Vancouver assault
That is really strange.
I suppose getting stabbed demonstrates | that the passenger is openly committing a crime.
The driver should be | charged with aiding and abetting?
What kind of actions should the driver have taken?
Would he have | been charged for those actions?
