Nicholas Goldberg: Are L.A.'s high-speed, high-adrenaline car chases worth the risks?
Two bystanders were killed when a pickup that had been reported stolen and had been pursued by police crashed into a parked Honda Civic in Panorama City.“If you know with impunity you won’t be chased, then why not run?” LAPD Deputy Chief Donald Graham said in an interview.
“If you’re chasing a terrorist or a rapist or a murderer, that’s one thing — but not for a stolen car or a stolen TV,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina who has been studying police pursuits since the 1990s. “It’s not a good return on the investment.”
The cops are often tempted to keep a chase going rather than calling it off because they’re reluctant to let a bad guy get away, and because of the adrenaline rush, Alpert says. The LAPD has, to its credit, thought about these issues. During any pursuit, its officers are expected to undertake a balancing test to determine, among other things, “whether the seriousness of the initial violation or any subsequent violations reasonably warrants continuance of the pursuit,”Officers in pursuits are supposed to be continually evaluating whether they are putting the public at “unreasonable” risk.
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