Trooper's Report (some info redacted due to the children):In the evening hours of July 10th, 2023, I, Trooper First Class (TFC) Darryle Hinton, was traveling...
A pedestrian would usually either hear the siren or see the lights. Plus keep in mind it’s about 10x easier to see detail in real life than in this video. But yes, high speed chases are still incredibly dangerous with everything we can possibly do to mitigate risk.
But it’s already way too common to evade a police chase, if high speed chases were not an option, that would just be the obvious choice for avoiding police. It’s already way too common for criminals in vehicles to resort to it with the current “sucess” rate, versus the also high potential for catastrophic results.
The way forward is not easy, they can’t ignore them, but they also try not to put so much pressure on them that they get too reckless. A surprising percentage of people manage to talk themselves out of the high speed chase once they see that they can’t get away. Although only surprising because we see those results in videos way less often than they occur, because they are less “entertaining”. It’s still unfortunately less common than we’d like, just more common than you might initially assume.
Yeah, agreed. Obviously, conducting this kind of high speed chase puts members of the public at risk (what if one of those cars he was passing on the shoulder at 150mph just happened to pick that moment to cut right thinking they were getting out of his way?), but also obviously, making a habit of letting people go just because they hit the gas also puts members of the public at risk. There’s not an easy answer I don’t think.
A pedestrian would usually either hear the siren or see the lights. Plus keep in mind it’s about 10x easier to see detail in real life than in this video. But yes, high speed chases are still incredibly dangerous with everything we can possibly do to mitigate risk.
But it’s already way too common to evade a police chase, if high speed chases were not an option, that would just be the obvious choice for avoiding police. It’s already way too common for criminals in vehicles to resort to it with the current “sucess” rate, versus the also high potential for catastrophic results.
The way forward is not easy, they can’t ignore them, but they also try not to put so much pressure on them that they get too reckless. A surprising percentage of people manage to talk themselves out of the high speed chase once they see that they can’t get away. Although only surprising because we see those results in videos way less often than they occur, because they are less “entertaining”. It’s still unfortunately less common than we’d like, just more common than you might initially assume.
Yeah, agreed. Obviously, conducting this kind of high speed chase puts members of the public at risk (what if one of those cars he was passing on the shoulder at 150mph just happened to pick that moment to cut right thinking they were getting out of his way?), but also obviously, making a habit of letting people go just because they hit the gas also puts members of the public at risk. There’s not an easy answer I don’t think.