{"id":69305,"date":"2025-11-25T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69305\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:50:07","slug":"how-can-police-justify-the-recent-hours-long-i-5-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69305\/","title":{"rendered":"How can police justify the recent hours-long I-5 shutdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 25, 2025 7:30 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: I am retired law enforcement, having served for nearly 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Buena Park Police Department initiated a pursuit in the early morning hours of Saturday, Nov. 22 (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-22\/southbound-i-5-lanes-near-camp-pendleton-closed-after-car-chase-ends-in-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSouthbound I-5 reopens near Camp Pendleton after car chase ends in police shooting,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 22). The pursuit ended in the vicinity of the southbound Interstate 5 in Oceanside, when the suspect ran from his vehicle. He was later apprehended and jailed. Apparently there was an officer-involved shooting, but no officers were injured and there were no traffic collisions. In any case, the southbound I-5 was completely shut down for at least six hours, creating a monumental traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: How can law enforcement justify inflicting such hardship on the motoring public in order to conduct such a painstakingly slow investigation? I understand wanting to be thorough, but that is beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>James Dowling, Huntington Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 25, 2025 7:30 AM PT To the editor: I am retired law enforcement, having served for nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,39348,7338,14253,41041,2072,5150,41044,41042,7171,236,2592,41040,41039,595,41043],"class_list":["post-69305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-buena-park-police-department","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-chase","tag-early-morning-hour","tag-editor","tag-i-5","tag-james-dowling","tag-motoring-public","tag-nov","tag-police","tag-pursuit","tag-recent-hours-long-i-5-shutdown","tag-retired-law-enforcement","tag-saturday","tag-southbound-interstate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}