Another IL trooper killed by semi .

My point is simple.

I know the truck driver was wrong too.

But, when the trooper killed the girls in the Belleville area, it was kept quiet and they kept the officer on salary for 2 years.

It reeks of double standard.

One poster on here said it was fine when it was a dirty trucker. What about this?

I have friends as officers.


Why should the truck driver go to jail when the offense is not different?

 

The way I see it there is simply too many cars and trucks on the road for anyone to be safe, so greed is really the no#1 factor for his death. When our industry was in our cities we all had plenty of room and we weren't traveling 30+ miles for work every day. We had a better economic system that had standards. The scam of deregulation changed everything for the worse, so I would expect more deaths on the roads since they are all illegally overcrowded.

The majority of the time police throughout the country are no where to be found on the highways when you need them to keep order. So their silence is their own fault collectively, just as it is our fault when we are running 14 in a day as if it is normal. I seriously believe the entire system will have to collapse before anything gets better.

It just shows how low we have sunk as a nation. The two things that surprised me in the video was that none of the men in the bar stopped him from hitting her, and how she managed to get up after being (what looked like) punched in the face.

 

It is very common to see the Illinois State Police parked on the left shoulder of that highway, especially at that time of the night. I believe Id park on the right shoulder to catch speeders, at least youd have somewhere to go if you happened to see something like this about to happen, instead of being pinned against that wall. Like that one commenter stated, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the divider between the front seat and the rear had something to do with his death. Granted they need protection between themselves and accused criminals but hitting his head on that divider certainly did not do him any good, especially on an impact of that magnitude. I think a good idea would be to build a cage on the right side of the vehicle in the back seat that would house a max of 2 prisoners. This would protect the officers in the event of a collision such as this. My Condolences to his family.

 

A lot can happen in 7 years.