Tributes

HONORING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS

As we hope for the day when PursuitSAFETY won’t need to exist, our members are always working toward the day when all of the innocent killed and injured are remembered.  


Deputy Joshua Lancaster

Deputy Joshua Lancaster

California

Heather Lancaster, the widow of Fresno County sheriff's deputy Joshua Lancaster, an innocent bystander, contends the Sanger Police Department was negligent in a police pursuit that led to her husband's death.

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Karen Schmeer

Karen Schmeer

New York

Karen Schmeer received the Sundance Film Festival's editing award in 2009 and was a longtime editor with Errol Morris. A driver fleeing from police hit Karen, a pedestrian, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Kathryn “Katy” Bogosian

Kathryn “Katy” Bogosian

California

Katy was on her way to pick up her son from a daycare school.

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Kathy Porter

Kathy Porter

Georgia

The death of Kathy Porter, wife of Atlanta Braves trainer Jeff Porter, is the inevitable result of unnecessary police chases in Georgia and elsewhere.

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Kayla Woods

Kayla Woods

California

The family of Kayla Woods was inconsolable. Kayla was outside playing with two other children when a police chase entered their neighborhood and killed her.
~KABC, Los Angeles