My son is a police officer (although not traffic) and I spoke to him about this and all those police programmes where they always catch the fail to stoppers after the pursuit etc etc.
He actually laughed and said its not really like that as they never show the ones that get away as they are faster / take bigger risks / or the pursuit is called off by a senior officer (the pursuit commentary is constantly monitored by an inspector in the control room, and if he considers the pursuit has become an unacceptable risk to other road users or the general public he will call it off) effectively allowing them to get away and this happens a lot.
They always seem to have the police helicopter available to follow the fail to stoppers which he says is also somewhat exaggerated.
He said these programmes are done to give the impression the police always catch the fail to stops, uninsured, unlicensed and dangerous drivers which is patently not the case but they don't want you to know that.
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