Red flashing lights behind a driver, does this mean a regular traffic stop, or is the driver on the run from the police. Will he or she stop, or panic and decide to avoid the police lights and speed off. This is the making of a dangerous high speed chase, if the driver decides not to stop. When this happens, the officer is going to begin the chase, because he does not know whether the driver has committed some terrible crime, like robbery or, if he is a dangerous drug dealer, or perhaps a wanted sex offender. You never know when a high speed pursuit will start. They can sometimes start in a local area and continue into another jurisdiction. Although these chases are dangerous, neither the driver nor the police know what might be ahead of them. Although police chases are dangerous, police who allows suspects to flee run the risk that offenders will do even greater harm to citizens, says Michael Crivello, president of the Milwaukee Police Association and a city police detective.
“They’re fleeing because they may be wanted for sexual assaults, shootings, homicides,” he says. “there are pursuits that are successfully concluded all the time, but you never hear about those.” Milwaukee changed its policy on pursuits last month after four people were killed by drivers fleeing police in three separate incidents in a two-month period. Police there now must have probable cause that a violent felony has occurred instead of reasonable suspicion before initiating a chase. Who do you blame when such dangerous chases end up taking the lives of innocent bystanders. The driver, nor the police wouldn’t know, what effect this action could cost a community, when the life of someone who is well known, not only locally, but throughout the state. The high speed chase that occurred on March 24, 2010, took the life of my Pastor, Apostle Anthony Taylor. He was 44 years