Posted on Friday, 19th November 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
A good trade-off?
Police pursuit rules have cut chases, injuries
Limits also reduce crashesA new policy that places more restrictions on when Milwaukee police officers can chase a fleeing vehicle has resulted in fewer pursuits, injuries and crashes than occurred under the previous guidelines, the city’s Fire and Police Commission said Thursday.
The new policy also has resulted in fewer arrests of suspects immediately after a police chase, but the commission’s executive director and Police Chief Edward A. Flynn say they can accept that fact.
“If a few non-violent offenders get away but no citizens or officers are killed or injured, that’s a good tradeoff,” Flynn said Thursday.
How do you know they are non-violent offenders if you don’t catch ‘em? I guess it looks good in the crime statistics… If it’s not reported, it didn’t happen.
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November 19th, 2010 at 6:24 am
I’ve told you, Flynn is nothing more than a bagman for the Democrat party.
This statistic is a phony and useless as Obama’s saved or created job statistics.
November 19th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Any political appointee is a bagman for the person who appoints them. The stat isn’t phony, but it only gives an illusion of greater public safety.
November 20th, 2010 at 2:02 am
“If a few non-violent offenders get away but no citizens or officers are killed or injured, that’s a good tradeoff.” Admirable. Using that argument, I think we should take it a step further and eliminate all types of chases, including foot chases, in which an Officer has no personal knowledge that the suspect is a violent offender. We could use this as our model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqM-LfzvX4