PursuitSAFETY

A national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, PursuitSAFETY® is committed to reducing the number of deaths and injuries as a result of vehicular police pursuit and response call crashes. We are working on a safer way to prevent these tragedies from happening to others and to save lives, especially innocent bystanders and police officers.

Pursuing Justice for ‘lost’ crime victims

By Candy Priano

Crime victims leave behind families who fear that their loved ones will be forgotten. For decades and even today, innocent people killed in police pursuits are considered acceptable collateral damage. Families of pursuit victims don’t even have a chance to fear that their loved ones will be forgotten because they quickly learn that their children, siblings, parents, grandparents are… Read more HERE

Police-pursuit bill requires real teeth

Candy Priano

When you bury a child, your life is forever altered. You spend holidays and birthdays kneeling beside a cold, engraved marker remembering warm hugs and precious smiles. That’s how it is for me. One minute, my Kristie was a 15-year-old honor student laughing with her brother in the back of our van as we drove to her high-school basketball game. The next, she was one of hundreds killed each year across the nation in high-speed police chases, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nearly a third are innocent…

How many deaths before it’s not okay?

by Candy Priano, Executive Director Voices Insisting on PursuitSAFETY

“Whenever some innocent driver or pedestrian is killed as a result of a high-speed chase,” writes Thomas Sowell in one of his September columns, “editorials are sure to appear, saying this would not have happened if the police had just let the high-speed driver go on his way without pursuing.”

“Some” innocent driver or pedestrian? I regularly read Thomas Sowell’s column, and I don’t recall him describing other crime victims in this way? He wants us to believe he cares about the innocent, but he doesn’t show it. Some people refer to the blameless children, grandchildren, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters killed and maimed in police chases as “that family,” “that woman,”…