Our Mission
Save lives. Help victims and families of police pursuits and emergency response calls. PursuitSAFETY is working for safer ways to protect all of us.
Our Mission
We believe:
- Officers can only conduct police vehicular pursuits for known violent crimes.
- Fleeing and eluding should be a felony with mandatory prison time. For public safety purposes, the act of fleeing and eluding cannot be used as an excuse to justify a chase or to justify a continued and higher-risk chase.
- Legislation needs to make the registered owner the presumed fleeing driver of a vehicle (such a presumption is rebuttable but the burden of proof shifts to the owner, who thereby becomes highly motivated to identify the family member or whomever else was driving the vehicle).
- Officers must follow their vehicular pursuit and police vehicular emergency-response call policies.
a. Law enforcement agencies should welcome accountability to the public they serve. - Ongoing pursuit and emergency-response training should be mandatory for all peace officers.
- Mandatory reporting of pursuit activities should be required of all law enforcement agencies.
Our goal is to:
- Work to implement the above concepts.
- Educate the public, police and press about police pursuits and police vehicular emergency-response calls.
- Provide PursuitSAFETY educational programs for residents in juvenile hall and other groups
- Provide a resource for law enforcement for the development and implementation of safe and responsible pursuit and emergency-response policies, procedures, practices and laws.
- Improve officer training and supervision with respect to police pursuits and emergency responses.
- Provide a resource for families of victims and victims of crashes caused by police pursuits and emergency responses.
PursuitSAFETY welcomes and appreciates your support and participation. Become a member and join a great team!
