Police strategies often develop from custom and practice without guidance from empirical research. Police officers often make their decisions based upon information and tactics with which they are the most familiar and comfortable. Choosing between available strategies and other alternatives can be improved through research and evaluation. One area of policing in which this is especially true is pursuit driving, which may be the deadliest weapon in a police officer's arsenal. Using the analogy between improper use of firearms and improper pursuit driving, Alpert and Dunham analyze the police car as a potentially dangerous weapon. The book is based upon information gathered over several years in Dade County (Miami), Florida. Included are the details of deaths, injuries, and property damage. Also reported are the arrests and apprehensions of felony suspects. The data are presented not to scare citizens, but to assist them, members of the law enforcement community, and politicians to understand more clearly the role of pursuit in policing and crime control. Pursuit needs to be discussed as a deterrent and crime-fighting strategy, and felony arrests resulting from successful pursuit must be included to compute a cost-benefit analysis. By offering a view of police pursuit that has been heretofore unavailable, the authors hope their empirical data will replace unsupported opinion and media sensationalism as information on which to create or modify pursuit policies and legal standards.
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GEOFFREY P. ALPERT is a Professor in the College of Criminal Justice and a Research Professor in the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of South Carolina.
ROGER G. DUNHAM is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Miami, Florida.
ROGER G. DUNHAM is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Miami, Florida.
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On January 16, 1989, the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Clement Anthony Lloyd, a twenty-three-year-old black man, was involved in a hot pursuit with a Miami police officer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concerning pursuit driving, primary pursuit unit, police pursuit driving, authorized emergency vehicle, fleeing motorist, pursuit guidelines, pursued vehicle, aleatory factors, pursuing officer, pursuing unit, vehicle pursuit, prolonged pursuit, police pursuits, lawful performance, pursuit outcomes, felony stops, fleeing vehicle, registration violations, pursuit situation, law violator, field supervisor, traffic violator, pursuit policy, impaired drivers, high speed pursuit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dade County, Criminal Code, Highway Traffic Act, Solicitor General, Ontario Police Commission, Police Act, Metro-Dade Police Department, New Jersey, California Highway Patrol, United States, Communications Bureau, Cross-Tabulation of Accident, Cross-Tabulation of Injury, Division of Criminal Justice, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Ontario Police College, Uniform Vehicle Code, Department of Transportation, Cross-Tabulation of Escape, Percentage of Cases Correctly Classified, Police Pursuit Driving Table, Results From Function Test New!
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On January 16, 1989, the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Clement Anthony Lloyd, a twenty-three-year-old black man, was involved in a hot pursuit with a Miami police officer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concerning pursuit driving, primary pursuit unit, police pursuit driving, authorized emergency vehicle, fleeing motorist, pursuit guidelines, pursued vehicle, aleatory factors, pursuing officer, pursuing unit, vehicle pursuit, prolonged pursuit, police pursuits, lawful performance, pursuit outcomes, felony stops, fleeing vehicle, registration violations, pursuit situation, law violator, field supervisor, traffic violator, pursuit policy, impaired drivers, high speed pursuit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dade County, Criminal Code, Highway Traffic Act, Solicitor General, Ontario Police Commission, Police Act, Metro-Dade Police Department, New Jersey, California Highway Patrol, United States, Communications Bureau, Cross-Tabulation of Accident, Cross-Tabulation of Injury, Division of Criminal Justice, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Ontario Police College, Uniform Vehicle Code, Department of Transportation, Cross-Tabulation of Escape, Percentage of Cases Correctly Classified, Police Pursuit Driving Table, Results From Function Test New!
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