Not sure where your 300 per year morbidity rate come from. I'll assume its true.
So what is the cost of all the death, damage and suffering by those who are not apprehended? Is it good if they are trained that if they run, they will not be pursed. Do you spank a child who runs into the street if they don't get hit by a car? I did, right than, right now! 300/year is less that 1 per year, a tragic loss if you or your loved one is lost. It does pale in the light of the bigger number of 43,000 annual motor vehicle deaths as quoted here; http :// www . soyouwanna .com/site/ toptens /accidents/ accidentsfull . html -- Peter T. Arnold P.M. x3 All Mail to: Secretary Hartford Evergreen Lodge #88 A.F. & A.M. 34 Country Club Drive Windsor, CT 06095 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch Haley" < mlh @voyager.net> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" < mercedes @ okiebenz .com> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:33:18 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [ MBZ ] Bel Air vs Malibu and crumple zones pm7...@comcast.net wrote: > Amongst the "Experts" there is no consensus of correct action here. Who needs "experts"? Either police chases offer some benefit to society that's worth more than the 300 or so lives lost annually, or they don't. This isn't a pro-cop/anti-cop subject, it's a simple policy choice, with widely available statistical data to inform the choice. If we end these chases, the lives we save (or about 1/5 of them anyway) may be the cops' . > a duty sargent will often call of a pusuit using third person judgement. I > wouldn't second guess him either. I would, as did the author of the opinion piece I linked. How in the world would he know, listening to the chase on the radio, when it gets out of hand? The only one in a position to know is the chaser, but he's to busy chasing (and fueled by adrenalin) to think about it. Many cops do, of their own volition, break off a chase when the fleeing subject's actions appear to be dangerous. Many others don't, and then when the dash cam tapes are released after a fatality, we look at them with the benefit of hindsight and think "this was nuts, no traffic ticket could be worth that". BTW, when making my initial reply, I failed to catch the part about the car doing the T-bone traveling at 80mph. Due to the velocity squared factor, that car at 80mph probably had significantly more kinetic energy than the van that hit the W124 at 60mph. (I'm still impressed by the W124's performance, especially considering that it was designed around 1985) Mitch. _______________________________________ http :// www . okiebenz .com For new and used parts go to www . okiebenz .com To search list archives http :// www . okiebenz .com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http :// okiebenz .com/mailman/ listinfo / mercedes _ okiebenz .com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090928/d22138b1/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
