Did you watch the documentary? The camera operators relayed the fact that the women had apparently deliberately stepped into motorway traffic. It's blindingly obvious that this could become more than a simple trespass matter.
The police are not there only to react to a crime, but to be proactive when there is a reasonable chance of a crime being committed.
It's not an offence to balance a brick over the egde of a motorway bridge, but a passing policeman would prevent you from doing so for much longer.
Regarding the uzi comment, you can always tell when someone's floundering when they start resorting to ridiculous extensions...e.g. implying that I fully support the use of uzis to control trespassing.
Impressive contribution to the discussion.
Yes, I did watch the documentary, and have subsequently rewatched and verified the information within the footage.
The camera operators relayed what they could 'guess' at, to such an extent that the police officer stated that the information coming from them was "sketchy at best".
Yes, it is a police officers job, to be proactive at the prevention of a crime, but there was no reasonable grounds to believe at that time, that the two sisters were about to turn around and run into a busy carriageway, whether they had done so once already is not the point. And seems to be the point that you don't much care about, since you want to blame the police for failing to prevent them from acting the way they did. There was nothing in their behaviour that suggested to the officers on scene, that the two women would attempt to run infront of traffic for a second, or even a third time, and later of course, the paramedic who approached sabina, should he have used a tazer or a baton to subdue her before she jumped off that bridge?
You want to see things from one very blinkered perspective, so go ahead, blame the police for the failure of the crystal ball crime prevention unit.
And yes I did deliberately take your point to the ridiculous extreme, and why shouldn't I, you were doing just the same in saying that the police failed in their duty to restrain the women. In fact, if you listened to one of the officers on the scene, she stated that she did consider using her baton, but decided against it for fear of causing further injury.
But whatever, you have your opinion, I have mine, and we will not agree on this.