I field that a police pursuit should not be allowed.  Law enforcement officials will argue this fact by stating that this is sending the wrong message to criminals.  It’s true that after each police chase they usually get their man; but at what cost? Usually its property damages with the taxpayers paying the high cost for repairs. The cost sometimes is injury to innocent bystanders or even worse the loss of life.  We must keep this in mine when weighing the options here. We must understand that a criminal on the run is not thinking with a rational mind.  They?re more like a wild animal with only one thought; escape at any cost.  Law enforcement is not thinking with a rational mind either. Instead their minds are pumping with an enormous flow of adrenaline.  Like a trophy Hunter on the pursuit of a Price trophy. Law enforcement officials will say that instinct is what it takes on the pursuit of criminals I disagree!  Instinct is something that you use to solve a case, or to locate a criminal. Instinct is something that should never be used when lives are at risk.  This is when you need a well thought out plan. If a person does not pull over after seeing the blue lights they had no intention to.  Further pursuit of this criminal can only lead to property damage or serious injuries or even death.  None of this is worth catching someone that is only fleeing because they don’t want a speeding ticket, or has an expired driver’s license, or a under age joy rider or someone stealing a car with a simple misdemeanor bench warrant out for their arrest.  And if we were to do a poll I would guarantee that research would show that these will be the top offenders that are fleeing from police. Then you would have the drunk drivers and after that serious offenders.  I think that they should make the laws stricter for people who flee from law enforcement.  But at the same time law enforcement should be made not to pursue someone that does not stop for a blue light. Instead calling in the tags and using other methods of tracking them. If nothing else find the owner of the Vehicle and if they claim that they was not driving the car they should be slapped with an enormous fine somewhere around $2,500.00 and a suspension of their license. The person could get out of this only if their car was stolen with a report filed; or simply just stating who was driving their vehicle. Then this person could be dealt with accordingly, with the same penalty and time in jail. I truly feel that these actions would make a difference, and save senseless loss of lives Bodily injuries in property damage that we the public or faced to deal with.  These are my thoughts and my opinion. It may be my opinion along but I actually feel that if this was enforcing things would go a lot smoother.

Hind-sight being 20/20, I think they should have radioed for back-up and had another officer come towards the man they were chasing from an exit he was heading towards.  I don’t mean for the back-up person to crash with him head-on.  The back-up person, because they started where he was headed, would have a much better chance of putting out stop-sticks and just stopping the right man, and it’s safer than having several cars traveling in the wrong direction.  If somebody is headed in the wrong direction on the interstate, you absolutely have to stop them.  You can’t wait to give them a ticket after they’ve killed themselves or someone else.  It’s easy to play arm-chair quarter-back, but the fact of the matter is that none of us would have wanted to have been faced with that decision that night, and alot of people would have done the same thing out of instinct.  It’s easy to say “Don’t rely on instinct”, but I’d like to see you turn it off, especially in a time-sensitive crisis.  For all the flak they’re going to catch over this, they DID stop the man without causing another wreck.  Sometimes you have to admit that something you don’t like or wouldn’t have done yourself worked anyway.

When police chase a criminal escaping in the wrong direction on any road, highway, or Interstate, they do so with many lights flashing.  If I were driving toward such a junction, I might spot the flashing police-car lights, but perhaps not the criminal heading towards me.  With even a few seconds notice, I might have time to head for the grassy area and avoid a “death by head-on suicide collision” with the suspect.

Yes, by all means, chase that dude and get him by all means.  Those who offend society must pay to society the restitution due society.  To do otherwise sends the wrong message to an already confused society who apparently knows no limits.