By: The Daily sheeple
A man wanted in connection to an attempted murder had already evaded Detroit police once, but when he jumped a freeway median and ran into oncoming traffic, there was no escape even after he ran up the hood and onto the roof of a minivan.
The suspect led Detroit police on two high-speed pursuits Friday,...
While there is still some debate as to what degree a law officer's age and inexperience contribute to deadly crashes, it's broadly accepted that speed kills. Unfortunately, most conventional police pursuit training programs don't successfully train officers to drive at high speeds in realistic, real life environments such as rural, city...
By: ABC7.com staff
VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES --
An armed carjacking suspect led Los Angeles police officers on a high-speed chase over San Fernando Valley surface streets Wednesday before crashing at a red light and being taken into custody.
The suspect in a Chrysler sedan led officers on a chase at speeds that hit 80-90 mph...
By WSYX/WTTE, abc6onyourside.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUYpJa1TvVk
LOS ANGELES, Calif. A suspect who led police on a high-speed chase through the streets of Los Angeles brought it to an end quickly when he slammed into a fence and power pole.
Police chased the pickup truck for several miles along the 110...
According to POST (California's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training), California law enforcement are injured in roughly 700 automobile collisions each year. Conventional wisdom holds that it is younger officers who get into the most high-speed pursuit accidents, either because of inexperience, poor judgement, poor control...
By: Michael Lee-Murphy, Connecticutmag.com
Police at the scene of the fatal shooting of Jayson Negron, 15, in Bridgeport on May 9. Negron was driving what police say was a stolen car before the shooting. Christian Abraham/Hearst Connecticut Media
At a vigil on Fairfield...
By Bruce Murphy, urbanmilwaukee.com
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn still vividly remembers an incident that happened on his first job as a chief, in Braintree Massachusetts.
“Two police officers were chasing a speeder and on a curve in the road they lost control and hit an oak...
Researchers break police pursuit training programs into two broad categories: physical Emergency Vehicle Operations Courses (EVOCs) and computer-controlled Law Enforcement Driving Simulators (LEDS).
Comparing EVOC-based and LEDS-based Police Pursuit Training
EVOCs are the traditional "driving ranges," with their orange cones...
Although it's rarely reported, traffic crashes and high speed pursuit kill roughly as many law officers as firearms. According to the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, traffic-related incidents have been the leading cause of death for officers in the line of duty for most of the past two decades. These...
By Thomas C. Frohlich, 24wallst.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9m6S6sRMJo
Police chases, as exciting as they are in movies, can result in accidents — sometimes fatal ones. The victims can be the perpetrator, an officer, or innocents. According to a report released May 9 by the U.S. Department of Justice, the 68,000 vehicle...