| High speed police pursuits are regarded as one of the controversial issues in law enforcement today. There are many issues surrounding police pursuits such as criminal and civil liability. Police agencies have developed and put into place policies regarding each function of the job.;There are different types of police pursuit policies. These policies may vary from each police agency. The different policies are formed based on different past incidents and case law.;High speed police pursuits have been an issue in the court system. In different court cases from Brower v. County of Inyo, County of Sacramento v. Lewis, Bryan County, Oklahoma v. Brown, and Scott v. Harris the 4 th and 14th Amendments are used in filing Section 1983 Lawsuits.;High speed police pursuits are caused by a law enforcement officer attempting to stop a citizen for many different reasons. Typically pursuits start out from a routine traffic stop. Reasons citizens flee from the police vary but are because the driver does not have a license, a person in the vehicle has a warrant, there are drugs in the vehicle, the driver is intoxicated, the vehicle is stolen, etc.;There have been numerous studies and research done on high speed police pursuits. This study provides information on prior research including statistics on pursuits along with research on police officer perceptions on pursuits.;The study provides a statistical analysis on survey results obtained from ten local police agencies from Clinton County, Iowa and Whiteside County, Illinois. There were 128 respondents who completed the survey. |
