Just another day in New Orleans

guidomerkinsrules said
Several articles out there but most I saw are localized (no national diagnosis or anything)…:

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Center for Statistics and Analysis, pursuits that turned deadly increased 41 percent from 2001 to 2021. During that time period, 8,203 people died; 493 of those were from Georgia. Of those killed nationally, about 36 percent were innocent bystanders.

Other reports have said that do not pursue mandates are important BUT do not/should not apply if police are in pursuit of someone they know committed an act of violence
But I think it’s pretty clear in those articles that the cost benefit analysis of danger to innocents vs most high speed chases falls clearly on the ‘protect the public’ side - which, of course, includes protecting the public from footing the bill for chases gone wrong - which seems to be a sizable payout

Fortunately Orleans Parish has a multi-decade backlog of unpaid judgments so we don’t really have to worry about that last part.

Anyway, if the LSP can show that they pursued a car that was 1) stolen, and 2) engaged in another crime, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt until shown otherwise.

I get the risk of a crash but we’re also taking about stolen cars being driven by someone who has decent odds of being high AF and running red lights to begin with.