Pursuits

[Jim Phillips]

The deputy who was chasing the guy who ran into and killed my daughter was listening, very loudly I might add, to Boston doing "Long Time".

[Jim Phillips]

I was very suprised I never get a reply to this post.
Listen in

[canuckofapeach]

You posted this story last November 03.

[Ianscape]

I guess just about any soundtrack from a Bond movie that had a car chase in it.


Ian

[Ghost 1]

CPRIANO:First of all,I would like to say I am truly sorry for your loss. There is a certain risk involved in chasing any vehicle,regardless of the offense. I have been involved in chases and for all of LE,it's damned if you do and damned if you don't. I want to ask you this:If the officer(s) had called off the pursuit,and the suspect still crashed into your family,would you blame LE for not trying to stop the car when they had the chance? What if the officer tried to approach the suspect while she was stopped and she ran from him then? There are so many variables in this,and it is too easy to second guess what an officer had a split second to decide. I have personally been involved in cases where someone reports a stolen car,only to catch the offender and the so called victim comes back and says it wasn't stolen and they just wanted their car back. It wasn't the officers fault. The fault lies squarely on the suspect. That officer didn't make that girl run,only responded to her actions. I'm sure that those officers,just like every officer I know,did his best in a bad situation. I doesn't make your loss any easier to bear and I know that. But the bottom line is it is the suspect's fault and no one elses. All she had to do was pull over. We (LE) cannot see into the future. There is no way to predict someone's actions. There is no way to know that if the officer called off the chase that the suspect would have stopped. If she didn't stop,then the officer still (in your eyes) would have been wrong for letting her go. Personally,I would rather have someone trying to stop a criminal when they have the chance,instead of letting them go to wreak havoc on the public unobstructed.