📝 Plot: Frank Martin, a former Special Forces operative turned transporter, delivers packages with strict rules: never change the deal, no names, never open the package. When a shipment moves, he breaks his code and finds a woman, triggering violent events with ruthless gangsters, high-speed chases, and deadly combat in this relentless action thriller.

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🎭 Cast: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, François Berléand, Ric Young, Doug Rand, Didier Saint Melin, Tonio Descanvelle, Vincent Nemeth, Jean-Yves Bilien, Jean-Marie Paris, …

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🚗🔎 Imagine a lone Brit detective dreaming of global car chases while watching cranes play Tetris with stolen goods. Meanwhile, the grand quest for misplaced tractors now demands a world map and maybe a passport in this riveting episode of "Thieves Without Borders." 🌍🔍
https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2025/08/17/the-new-geography-of-stolen-goods #BritDetective #CarChases #ThievesWithoutBorders #GlobalQuest #StolenGoods #HackerNews #ngated
The new geography of stolen goods

Cars, phones, tractors: how high-end products are increasingly stolen to serve distant markets

The Economist

Just because uninvolved drivers and bystanders who become victims in high-speed police chases are often innocent doesn't mean they can easily pursue legal action for injuries or deaths.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/police/2025/08/12/528501/they-need-to-pay-qualified-immunity-leaves-police-chase-victims-with-few-paths-for-recourse/

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‘They need to pay’: Qualified immunity leaves police chase victims with few paths for recourse

Just because uninvolved drivers and bystanders who become victims in high-speed police chases are often innocent doesn't mean they can easily pursue legal action for injuries or deaths.

Houston Public Media
High-speed chases added to Uvalde shooting chaos. Chases are down 3 years later — but trauma remains

Vehicle pursuits and the resulting "bailouts" played a major role in school officials' and law enforcement's response to the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. It leaves lasting consequences.

Houston Public Media
Golfer, 70, struck by SUV in car chase on Chicago golf course: video

Not the driver he was looking for.A 70-year-old golfer was seriously injured after being struck by a black SUV while hitting the links at a Chicago-area golf course when a car chase turned the fairways into a freeway, wild video shows. The septuagenarian was struck at Billy Caldwell Golf Course in Edgebrook on Monday by an out-of-control and “angry” SUV driver — who had a silver sedan driven by a golf course staffer in hot pursuit, witnesses told ABC 7. “The silver sedan starts pursuing the SUV, who’s just intent on doing hot laps around the course,” golfer Ed Waters

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In the latest ruling highlighting the high bar on claims against police officers, the Texas Supreme Court decided a man whose vehicle was hit by a police cruiser can't sue the officer without proving he violated emergency response laws.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/04/28/519944/latest-texas-supreme-court-ruling-highlights-the-high-bar-on-proving-police-recklessness/

#Court #CriminalJustice #LawEnforcement #News #Police #Texas #CarChases #CarCrash #PoliceChases #PoliceOfficers #Policing #TexasSupremeCourt

Latest Texas Supreme Court ruling highlights the high bar on proving police recklessness

The high court's Friday ruling sets an even higher standard in proving whether governments can be sued over 911 responses.

Houston Public Media

Deaths from police chases are at an all-time high. These pursuits and their sometimes fatal consequences have come into sharper focus in cities like Fort Worth. But the federal data is barely scratching the surface — it only accounts for chases that ended in a fatality.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/police/2025/02/26/514804/texas-doesnt-track-police-chases-statewide-few-states-in-the-country-do/

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Texas doesn’t track police chases statewide. Few states in the country do

Experts say tracking police chases fosters transparency and can indicate whether certain pursuit policies are effective. So why don’t more states do it?

Houston Public Media

NBC Philadelphia: Hundreds of Philadelphia Police pursuits missing from state database. “The NBC10 Investigators found that it wasn’t just the [Virgen] Martinez case but dozens of other Philadelphia Police pursuits between 2019 and this year that have not been reported to state police as required by law. That means pursuits that have left people dead, injured, and resulted in property […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/22/nbc-philadelphia-hundreds-of-philadelphia-police-pursuits-missing-from-state-database/

High-speed #carchases on surface streets have frequently injured passersby and done significant property damage. They should not be normalized, especially for #traffic infractions. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-oakland-police-chase-19597534.php?