Otoh, he might not have been ramming cars had he not been chased.
How about we make cops lives easier? If a car’s stolen, how about issuing a report number and let the owner call the insurance company. PD turns it over to the tow companies, who can repo it in about 4 seconds flat. Low key. Easy Peasy. (Insurance companies do this anyway so jump-start the process) An 18yo isn’t going to be able to hide a Jag; he’d have probably dumped it before the night was up.
During the 1990s, crime rates in New York City dropped dramatically, even more than in the United States as a whole. Violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in the City, compared to about 28 percent in the nation as whole. Property crimes tumbled by about 65 percent, but fell only 26 percent nationally.
Many attribute New York's crime reduction to specific "get-tough" policies carried out by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration. The most prominent of his policy changes was the aggressive policing of lower-level crimes, a policy which has been dubbed the "broken windows" approach to law enforcement. In this view, small disorders lead to larger ones and perhaps even to crime. As Mr. Guiliani told the press in 1998, "Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other."
Except by not pursuing the criminal, he remains free to commit other crimes. Perhaps he has a kidnapped child in the trunk. Perhaps he’s looking for an untraceable ride to do a drive-by.
Many on FR (rightly) blame the administration’s lax immigration policy when an illegal immigrant kills an innocent. Had the INS done its job, that innocent might be alive today. Yet here you are advocating the exact same thing as the Obama admin: just let the criminal go and hope for the best. Sure, 75% of the criminals might not commit another crime with the car. But what do you say to the grieving family of the victims of the other 25%?