The need for immediate apprehension must outweigh the risk created by the pursuit, to the public and those involved. It clearly didn’t. That’s my agency’s policy. We don’t chase organ donors. I wonder what the Troopers policy states? Going through town at those speeds is unacceptable.
That's pretty much where I am with it. I'd have called it off before going through the town.
I had a motorcycle at 117 in a 45mph zone, after dark one night on radar. I got after him. He pulled over. No chase involved. He had a 16 year old girl on the bike behind him.
Took the college guy to jail, but had the girl call her daddy to come pick her up so I could explain things to him... She sure wasn't wanting her daddy to show up.
I'd not needlessly endanger people in town with a simple speeding pursuit. No way.
But those fuggers that run from the police figure out you won't chase them, and it leads to many more trying it. Catch 22.
