Re: [californiadisasters] Incident in Westchester : Belford Avenue and Airport..

To try to answer your question, Louis:

LAPD, as well as CHP, LACo Sheriff, all have very well-defined pursuit
policies. Smaller local PDs (of which there are many here--LA Co has 104
cities beside the obvious one, some contracting with Sheriff and some with
their own PDs) all have pursuit policies.

I don't know whose chase this was, and the policies vary some, so this is
general educated guessing:

Principle: Capture the purp(s) but try not to hurt or kill anybody in the
process.

Depending upon the specific circumstances, when the purp's driving becomes a
danger, the visible ground pursuit will be curtailed. Sometimes the purp
then slows down, but not always and not always enough.

The value of capturing the purp must be weighed: "Wanted for speed only"
purps are not pursued at 100 mph.

One complicating factor with this one was the proximity to LAX and its
restricted airspace. PD copters could not have been guaranteed to be able to
continue contact. (The streets mentioned put this about a half-block from
being under the final approach and within a mile of the end of the runways.)

The days of pursuits like those in the old movies (or even "Starsky and
Hutch") are gone. Even a pursuit with speeds approaching 100 mph are much
more "controlled". However, contrary to what some people choose to believe,
the fact of a pursuit and the speed of the pursuit are controlled by the
purp.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis N. Molino, Sr." <lnmolino@aol.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Incident in Westchester : Belford Avenue
and Airport..

Meth has nothing to do with POLICE doing 100 mph. Nothing.

Louis N. Molino, Sr. CET
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Training Program Manager
Fire & Safety Specialists, Inc.
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On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:25, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Not as long as there is meth to be had.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Louis N. Molino, Sr. <lnmolino@aol.com>
wrote:
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> I thought the days of the 100 mph chase where history?
>
> Louis N. Molino, Sr. CET
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