{"id":1529,"date":"2007-02-28T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/another_police_chase_case_with\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:15:34","slug":"another-police-chase-case-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/another-police-chase-case-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Atlanta Police Chase Case With Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few weeks ago we blogged about the dangerous nature of police chase cases.  See Blog entry entitled High Speed Police Chase Cases: An American Tragedy (2\/15\/07).  Today we wake up with a headline in  the Atlanta paper stating that \u201cTwo teens are dead and four others injured in a police chase case involving a juvenile that was driving a stolen vehicle.\u201d  According to the newspaper report of this incident, police in Clayton County, just outside of Atlanta, pulled over a joyriding juvenile who was in the process of providing a driver\u2019s license to the investigating officer when word came over the police radio that the vehicle the teen was driving was stolen.  The teenager took off and the police began to chase.  Even though the police had obtained proof of the identify of the juvenile and knew that the only offense in question was a non-violent theft of a motor vehicle, according to the newspaper article, this chase lasted for over four (4) miles.  As is so often the case in these dangerous pursuits, the juvenile driver lost control of his vehicle during the chase and crashed head on into several trees off the side of the road.  The result: all too predictable.  Two were killed and four others seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this tragic situation, we see the same pattern emerge that we have seen in far too many cases.  The police decide to chase for a non-violent felony and people are seriously injured and died.  Why?  Here, because of a stolen vehicle.  The question, of course, is whether it was all worth it.  We have two young people dead and four others seriously injured with thousands and thousands of dollars in medical expenses expected not to mention the tragedy and devastation sustained by the families of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no one can defend the right of the juvenile suspect in fleeing from the police.  The teenager should have cooperated with the police.  And yet, past experience indicates that juveniles often flee for a variety of reasons, most predictably fear.  Because they are young and inexperienced and afraid of the police, juveniles oftentimes do stupid things.  Here, it is not likely that the juveniles would have killed themselves or anyone else had the police not chased them so furiously over four miles.  If a chase lasts for any period of time at high speeds, particularly where a juvenile is involved, past experience indicates over and over and over again that there will almost certainly be tragic results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/another-police-chase-case-with\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Another Atlanta Police Chase Case With Fatalities\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few weeks ago we blogged about the dangerous nature of police chase cases. See Blog entry entitled High Speed Police Chase Cases: An American Tragedy (2\/15\/07). 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