{"id":1670,"date":"2008-01-14T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T11:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/police_chase_cases_do_not_alwa\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:09:47","slug":"police-chase-cases-do-not-alwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/police-chase-cases-do-not-alwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Chase Cases Do Not Always Protect the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our firm is working on a police chase metro Atlanta case involving an officer who has been in two separate high speed pursuit cases resulting in two deaths.  We have learned in this case that another officer in the same department has also been involved in two other accidents that have resulted in four deaths.  Thus, between these two officers within the same police department there have been 4 high speed pursuit cases we know of involving six deaths.  Is the public being protected when police officers engage in these high speed police chases?  We think not.<\/p>\n<p>An officer cannot fire his service revolver into a crowded mall in order to stop a shoplifter.  Most people understand that it would be too dangerous for an officer to fire his weapon in a crowded mall to apprehend a suspect for such a minor offense.  In short, the danger to the public would far outweigh the need to apprehend the suspect.  And yet, in a police pursuit context, the police are firing their proverbial guns (engaging in chases) on crowded streets, sometimes in residential areas, sometimes at night and sometimes under circumstances where there are many innocent motorists on the road, and yet, even in those cases where the need to apprehend the suspect is far outweighed by the danger to the public, the chase proceeds.  The question is why these practices continue to occur year after year in this country with no meaningful decrease in the carnage on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, it appears that the deaths and injuries which do occur in these cases simply have not affected the right people.  When the injured are the family of politicians, perhaps there will be a change in the law.  If the next police chase victimizes a prominent politician\u2019s family perhaps there will be an understanding of the dangers of these high speed pursuits.  Until such time, the public will continue to be \u201centertained\u201d by television shows depicting the excitement and adrenalin that one feels when viewing a high speed pursuit.  We can assure the public that such adrenalin and excitement would not be felt if their loved one was killed as a result of a pursuit involving a minor offense such as shoplifting.  Indeed, as of the writing of this blog, we are reviewing a case where a shoplifter was fleeing from a police officer and during that pursuit, two adults and a child were killed and another adult seriously injured.  Was the price worth it?  Again, we think not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/police-chase-cases-do-not-alwa\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Police Chase Cases Do Not Always Protect the Public\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our firm is working on a police chase metro Atlanta case involving an officer who has been in two separate high speed pursuit cases resulting in two deaths. We have learned in this case that another officer in the same department has also been involved in two other accidents that have resulted in four deaths. 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