Government Disregards Data on People Killed In High Speed Police ChasesBy Amanda Warren USA Today reports on another aspect that often goes forgotten when it comes to safety and law enforcement. How frequently do people get injured or die when police go on high-speed pursuits? Is the frequency increasing? Decreasing? Is it being taken seriously or for granted? The USA Today investigation believes that the number of traffic deaths caused by police high-speed pursuits is weakly tracked by an off-shoot of the Department of Transportation and under-reported potentially by thousands. They found: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration overlooked at least 101motor-vehicle deaths in 2013that were related to a police chase, according to a USA TODAY review of police reports and internal documents, court records, police-car videos and news accounts based on police statements. NHTSAs count of 322 chase-related deaths in 2013 the most recent year for which itsrecords are publicly available understates the total by at least 31%, the investigation shows. NHTSAsundercountsuggests that the actualnumber of people killed in police chases since 1979 could be more than15,000 far more than the 11,506 chase-related deaths found in the agencyspublicrecords and that chases result in a death much more frequently than studies have stated. Incredible. There could be more, because USA Today found this data by searching Internet and news databases. They found that about one-fourth of people who died during high-speed pursuits were innocent bystanders, and another one-fourth were passengers in the cars of those that were fleeing police. When there is talk of people shirking their duties under the law as a public servant lets not forget this egregious defiance of the law by the government. Amanda Warren writes for selfnews Post see her recent articles HERE 