We get it, you’re anti-police. Do you have an alert for every time a thread pops up that pertains to law enforcement in any way, you can post something about what they did wrong, or they think they a are seal team. It’s your opinion, and I fully support Freedom of Speech, but dang man, every post has you trashing LEOs. Is your record haunting you that much?

To pursue or not is actually a harder question to answer that people think.

A pursuit in itself is a hazard to the officer, suspect and the public. For this reason, most departments have adopted forcible felony only policies. I agree with this policy, but there are a few things to consider

Just because you stop chasing them, doesn’t mean they stop running. They very often crash even if the officer does not pursue. They tend to be looking over their shoulder trying to figure out if you’re still chasing them while running red lights and stop signs. There are no flashing lights and sirens to warn other people that something out of the ordinary is happening. If they do crash the officer is not on scene immediately to render and call for aid.

People tend to flee more if they think you won’t pursue them which leads to the situation above.

Often, the suspect’s identity is not known during a pursuit. Most of the time it’s not as simple as “ pick them up later.” It may be months, if ever, before the suspect is identified.

in my experience, the best outcome is to get stop sticks under them as soon as possible and end it before it becomes a big thing.

in your case, this may have just played out 5-10 times the same way. Find her, light her up, let her go, go to her house, no answer at the door, rinse and repeat.

Pursuits just aren’t as black and white as people like to make them out to be.

And there’s your forcible felony. Agg assault with a deadly weapon.