The public or the criminal? It would appear like left wing politicians and social in-activists believe it should be the criminal. The premier is standing right beside our mayor.........National Post editorial board on high-speed police chases
The numbers sound damning: In the past decade, nearly 20 by-standing Ontarians have been killed by vehicles being pursued at high speeds by local police officers, nine in Toronto, alone. That sum includes two teenage girls tragically killed this past weekend when the taxi in which they were riding was struck by a driver fleeing police. Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty have been quick to condemn police-chase policies, implying that officers — rather than the criminals they were pursuing — are to blame.
But before police reform their high-speed chase procedures as the mayor and premier have demanded, consider that in every previous deadly Toronto chase, the car being chased was stolen. In most cases, it was already travelling at high speed when police engaged it. They typically had pursued it for only a short while (in most cases under two minutes) before it crashed. And in every incident, either the courts or the Ontario Provincial Police’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) absolved officers of any responsibility.
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