[Volpe]

> After the police give up the chase, a member of the public is almost invariably killed at an intersection within 30s, since the offender is still driving at high speed but there are no longer any lights and sirens to warn the public.

i call BS, citation?

[lostlogin]

My perception was that the comment was correct however with a quick skim I cant produce anything more than anecdata. The police do seem to be consistently breaking their rules which dictate that the chase ends when it gets dangerous. However crashes do seem to be happen after the chase has ended rather too regularly - about 30 seconds later. Citation. Here is an editorial on the poor stats we have. An interesting aside - police chases followed by a crash kill far more people here than police guns. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objec...

[Lerc]

>However crashes do seem to be happen after the chase has ended rather too regularly - about 30 seconds later.

I had always assumed this was because it was standard practice to report that they had stopped chasing whenever the crashes occur. That's the rules so that's what you report.

[femto]

Is the time of the termination of a chase based on a record made by the pursuing officer? Is it also the case that it looks bad for the pursuing officer if a pursuit ends in an accident?

[CoryG89]

Obviously it doesn't look too good. I am thinking the same though. These crashes that happen 30 seconds after a chase has been halted are probably actually happening 30 seconds before the chase is actually halted; with the officer calling it in that they had quit just before the crash happened.

[Volpe]

That states the occupants of the car die. Not some random (innocent) member of the public (as the GP stated).

[lostlogin]

The non-driver occupants often aren't the person at fault. The driver is.