Lawmakers should adopt standards for police chases
The “PIT maneuver” is cop-speak for intentionally wrecking a citizen’s vehicle with impunity (“Tactic meant to end chases leads to death at high speeds,” Dec. 22).
No one should be injured or killed because the Georgia State Patrol lacks protocols, permits officers to escalate adrenaline-fueled chases and deflects accountability from the media.
State legislators and Gov. Brian Kemp can and should regulate the GSP’s unchecked power to pursue by adopting standards other states have reasonably imposed on their patrol forces.
D.A. GOODWIN, KENNESAW
It’s best to respect police and pull over
It’s very sad when people are injured or killed when they’re trying to elude the police.
Maybe if everyone respected the blue lights when they came on behind them, we could eliminate this issue. There was an old expression that basically said, “You can’t outrun a Motorola.”
We should just respect the police when they try to pull us over. There is usually a valid reason.
ALAN BERMAN, MARIETTA
Vision of city’s ‘emerald necklace’ remains
I loved Cathy Woolard’s Opinion Dec. 22 opinion essay, “Honor the Beltline’s grassroots beginnings.” Speaking truth to power. As someone who was power, Woolard knows how to do it. Just the facts: the history, the vision, the mission, the purpose, the transformative effort’s opportunity for the city.
Alexander Garvin was taken up in a helicopter to view the site and wrote enthusiastically about our “emerald necklace” in the making. Parks, housing, transportation, preservation (Atlanta’s beginnings, those railroad bridges). May it not be too late.
ALIDA C. SILVERMAN, ATLANTA
Is Trumpnada in our future?
I had to chuckle while reading your latest coverage of the Trumposphere regarding the president-elect’s desire to, once again, try to purchase Greenland from the Danes (“Trump returns to his idea of U.S. buying Greenland,” AJC, Dec. 24) and possibly reclaim the Panama Canal, and to make it a perfect trifecta, offer to make Canada the 51st state.
I recognize that some of his pronouncements are made in jest, but one can only let the mind wander and imagine what that future might look like. Given his penchant for promoting the Trump brand, I could envision casinos in the icy expanse of Trumpland, luxury cruises through the Trump Canal, and welcoming millions of Trumpnadians to become American citizens in our newest state, Trumpnada. And who knows, maybe Antarctica could be in the offing.
BILL KLEIN, KENNESAW
