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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
kutulu, i can appreciate your position on it, but I disagree completely. It doesn't matter whether the pursued is a mass murderer, a check forger, or an unkown entity. All you are doing is allowing petty criminals to run from the police and avoid paying the consequence for breaking the law. People that run from the police should be required to pay for any and all damages resulting from their criminal activity INCLUDING running from the police.
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Where do you get this idea that if the police don't engage in a high-speed persuit, the perpetrator is going to get away scott-free?
In this particular case, the police knew where she lived.
It's an empirical question that can be easily ascertained from available data sets whether most persuits involve criminals that the police have knowledge of their usual hang-outs and living spaces.
Not to mention the other ways of persuit: aerial, serial (cars form a communication chain throughout the path of the suspect and apprehend when he or she stops the vehicle), or even technological. A high-speed chase is both unnecessary due to our modern technological devices and dangerous to law-abiding citizens.
Many people in this thread have set up a false dilemma: either police engage in chases, apprehend the suspects, and sometimes kill or maim innocent bystanders, or they just throw their hands in the air and let the criminals run rampant throughout the cities.