[Arevalosocom]

The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin...

"Police pursuit records provide some frightening statistics.

• First, the majority of police pursuits involve a stop for a traffic violation.

• Second, one person dies everyday as a result of a police pursuit.

• On average, from 1994 through 1998, one law enforcement officer was killed every 11 weeks in a pursuit. [By 2010, that number increased to one officer killed every six weeks in a pursuit.]

• Innocent third parties who just happened to be in the way constitute 42 percent of persons killed or injured in police pursuits.

• Further, 1 out of every 100 pursuits results in a fatality.” —The FBI Report



USA Today, April 22, 2010: About 360 people are killed each year in police chases, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina who has studied police pursuits since the 1980s, says the actual number of fatalities is "three or four times higher." Another complicating factor: bystanders killed after police stop chasing suspects — even seconds afterward — are not counted.


91.4% of all chases are for non-violent crimes. —The IACP Police Pursuit Database, 2008, page 56 (pdf)

"90 seconds. That's the time an officer saves between driving 80 and 100 mph over a 10-mile stretch."
—Former Illinois State Police director Larry Trent

[deanmine]

i hear ya,... if i had a loved one killed in such a thing. i hear ya... and yet people still run from the cops.. and if u make it ok to run.. it makes pulling over the same as jury summons. and how insulting to every cop and innocent bystander whom was killed over a misdomener.. it should be a mandatory 2 year sentcence if there is no harm in the chase.. and while were on the topic, in cali its a mandatory 6 months now less... and that put a dent in it.. but still a joke to a joker

[Arevalosocom]

Why police pursue?

· 42.3% Traffic violation

· 18.2% Vehicle was believed to be stolen

· 14.9% Driver believed to be intoxicated (DWI)

· 8.6% Violent felony

· 7.5% Non violent felony

· 5.9% Other misdemeanors

· 2.6% Assisting other departments

100.0% Total — The IACP Police Pursuit Database, 2008, page 56 (pdf)

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Arevalosocom ↗

91.4% of all chases are for non-violent crimes

the chase itself and u fully agree with is a violent crime

[Arevalosocom]

42.3% over a ticket....................I wouldn't want my family to get killed over a stupid Speed Tax collection.

[deanmine]

i know, these family members are killed cuz a fucker is willing to drive a murder weapon because of a broken tail light