Maybe you need to stop imagining patterns that confirm your hypothesis.
As you said, the public is unhappy when police are perceived to do nothing, and when police are perceived to cause an accident. Both are potential outcomes of any incident without the existence of any cycle.
Its absurd to suppose the police have a meeting and someone says “people are getting really grumpy that we’re letting all the crooks get away so we better start chasing them again”.
So elected official calls the police commissioner and says “hey stop letting all the crooks get away we look silly”, and that gets passed all the way down the line without one single person saying, “why don’t we just assess each situation and make an intelligent decision as to whether the potential outcomes justify the risks”.
Sorry boss, what you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense.
Are you expecting the actions of elected officials to make sense?
And if you cared enough to pay attention, the rules around police pursuits do change frequently, moving backwards and forwards between permissive and restrictive of allowing chases.
Ive not noticed that cycle.
Police here do an assessment, consider the risks, decide what to do… you know, like professionals
It very much happens in the UK, here in NZ is the same to a lesser extent.
Maybe you need to pay more attention.
LOL.
Maybe you need to stop imagining patterns that confirm your hypothesis.
As you said, the public is unhappy when police are perceived to do nothing, and when police are perceived to cause an accident. Both are potential outcomes of any incident without the existence of any cycle.
Its absurd to suppose the police have a meeting and someone says “people are getting really grumpy that we’re letting all the crooks get away so we better start chasing them again”.
It’s not the police themselves making these decisions, typically elected officials.
So elected official calls the police commissioner and says “hey stop letting all the crooks get away we look silly”, and that gets passed all the way down the line without one single person saying, “why don’t we just assess each situation and make an intelligent decision as to whether the potential outcomes justify the risks”.
Sorry boss, what you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense.
Are you expecting the actions of elected officials to make sense?
And if you cared enough to pay attention, the rules around police pursuits do change frequently, moving backwards and forwards between permissive and restrictive of allowing chases.
No im expecting people who have spent a life time policing to be able to talk to elected officials.
I admire your optimism.