Sure, agreed. In this case however the criminal was refusing to be detained to be prosecuted, and was clearly willing to do anything to avoid it, trying to flee in his car.

As unfortunate as it was, this outcome is preferable to him crashing and killing an innocent victim while fleeing.

There is one less criminal on the street. Why is that a bad thing?

Or it’ll get you a dozen dupes of every submission.

We are the test environment. You get what you pay for.

It provides other users with an at a glance idea of your reputation, without chasing a “high score”. Could always rank users based on up/down votes, as I said, but limit the range so that as long as you’ve been active for a few months and aren’t a douchebag, your score will be maxed out.

Maybe we could still have karma, but display it as a ratio of good:bad karma or something? Active user and most of your interactions get upvoted, green dot. New user or not active for a while? Gray dot. Established user and all your content gets downvoted all the time, red dot.

Get banned from 50+ subreddits? Your color dot gets changed to a picture of u/spez.