i don't want to be cop for a day... i want to be attorney general.
i want to have a calm press conference showing a handful of the 'stop, police!' calls you see on every Cops or other real tv show followed by an idiot running and putting other lives at risk.
i will then calmly explain that because it represents a threat to innocent civilians and officers, as well as perpetrators, and is at best a tacit admission you were doing something wrong, 'i was scared' will no longer be an acceptable of forgiveable explanation for running. When an officer has identified himself or herself, and has video footage documenting such, ANY suspect who chooses to run forgoes any right to file suit for any physical or mental damage they incur in being aprehended and in the immediate period after aprehension, up until after said perpetrator has been entered into the system. AND officers are legally protected in using anything in their power to effect said capture.
Of course, the 'what if they are not really police' question will be shouted by the media puppets... So anyone masquerading as a law enforcement officer to detain a civilian is by definition demonstrating pre-meditation, and will be charged as such, through any subsequent or associated crime committed.
Is that too extreme? sorry, but i do not think so. if the idiots who choose to break the law see that running is no longer accepted, and will instead earn them a more... aggressive response that they cannot turn into an undeserved payday, i suspect the number of suspects who choose to flee will plummet.
Pax
RA