This from MacDoctor:
So the typical liberal arguments for doing away with police pursuits – that the kids are scared witless or are dying for minor offenses – are both nonsense. Police have a duty to uphold the law and if they can give chase without endangering the public, they should do so. Blaming police for the deaths of runners is like blaming a doctor for the death of a terminal cancer patient – fairly pointless and not terribly fair. You are not going to stop kids from killing themselves in cars if you ban police pursuits. Teenagers will always find another risky thrill. All you will have taught them is that the police are powerless to stop them.
There is no law that you can pass that will reduce the number of teenagers dying on the roads. Even if you raised the legal driving age to 20, there would still be plenty of kids driving illegally. The only thing that has any chance of success is for parents to teach kids not only their driving skills but also the appreciation that the turbo-charged monster they are driving can become a high-speed coffin in the blink of an eye and that it is NOT a big, shiny toy, but a lethal weapon.
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