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:

  1. Officers can only conduct police vehicular pursuits for known violent crimes.
  2. 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.
  3. 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). 
  4. 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.
  5. Ongoing pursuit and emergency-response training should be mandatory for all peace officers.
  6. Mandatory reporting of pursuit activities should be required of all law enforcement agencies.

 

Our goal is to:

  1. Work to implement the above concepts.
  2. Educate the public, police and press about police pursuits and police vehicular emergency-response calls.
  3. Provide PursuitSAFETY educational programs for residents in juvenile hall and other groups
  4. Provide a resource for law enforcement for the development and implementation of safe and responsible pursuit and emergency-response policies, procedures, practices and laws.
  5. Improve officer training and supervision with respect to police pursuits and emergency responses.
  1. 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!