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In Atlanta, High Speed Chases Will be Limited
Aired November 19, 2002 - 06:51 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A freelance photographer in Los Angeles is lucky to be alive this morning. Take a look at this. The cameraman almost bought the farm on this. This is the end of an eight mile high speed police chase in Los Angeles. The driver was taken to a hospital, but police will not say how he's doing.
High speed chase, high speed chases, I should say, the subject of this morning's Talk of CNN segment. Radio DJs from "The Bert Show" on Q100 right here in Atlanta join us by phone.
Good morning.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, Carol. It's so good to have you back.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.
COSTELLO: I know, I haven't talked to guys for such a long time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't call, you don't write when you're away. Nothing.
COSTELLO: I'm sorry. I'll get better at that, don't worry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel very used.
COSTELLO: No, don't feel that way. That's making me feel bad now.
But on to more important things.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
COSTELLO: A lot of high speed chases through Atlanta. I mean police chase suspects for anything here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've had five people die since March here in metro Atlanta as a result of high speed police chases and four of the people in those chases weren't even involved in the chase. They were just innocent bystanders, one was. And only one was the circumstance of a serious crime. So the police chief came out yesterday and said that's not going to happen here in Atlanta anymore, we just have too much traffic here, we can't be chasing guys at 60, 70, 80 miles per hour through the streets of Atlanta.
So it's, that's, it's not policy anymore. There will not be any high speed chases in Atlanta.
COSTELLO: So none at all, no matter what they're chasing the person for?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, what they're saying now, and this is right out of the books, that they will go on a high speed chase if -- and this is right off the books -- the suspect possesses a deadly weapon, a threat of violence to others or has committed a crime where serious physical harm was inflicted or threatened. So we may see some but not nearly as many as we've seen over the last couple of years.
COSTELLO: Yes, you know, there's an out for that, because you could consider a car a deadly weapon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess you could. I guess you could. And they're, I guess what they're trying to say now is in the cases of like much smaller crimes and in drunk driving what they'll do is they'll solicit other police officers that are down the road and radio them rather than actually get into the chase themselves.
COSTELLO: Right. And set up sort of a roadblock to just block them and not actually chase them.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got it.
COSTELLO: Hey, thank you very much.
We'll see you next week or hear from you next week.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good talking to you.
COSTELLO: Bye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bye.
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Aired November 19, 2002 - 06:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A freelance photographer in Los Angeles is lucky to be alive this morning. Take a look at this. The cameraman almost bought the farm on this. This is the end of an eight mile high speed police chase in Los Angeles. The driver was taken to a hospital, but police will not say how he's doing.
High speed chase, high speed chases, I should say, the subject of this morning's Talk of CNN segment. Radio DJs from "The Bert Show" on Q100 right here in Atlanta join us by phone.
Good morning.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, Carol. It's so good to have you back.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.
COSTELLO: I know, I haven't talked to guys for such a long time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't call, you don't write when you're away. Nothing.
COSTELLO: I'm sorry. I'll get better at that, don't worry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel very used.
COSTELLO: No, don't feel that way. That's making me feel bad now.
But on to more important things.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
COSTELLO: A lot of high speed chases through Atlanta. I mean police chase suspects for anything here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've had five people die since March here in metro Atlanta as a result of high speed police chases and four of the people in those chases weren't even involved in the chase. They were just innocent bystanders, one was. And only one was the circumstance of a serious crime. So the police chief came out yesterday and said that's not going to happen here in Atlanta anymore, we just have too much traffic here, we can't be chasing guys at 60, 70, 80 miles per hour through the streets of Atlanta.
So it's, that's, it's not policy anymore. There will not be any high speed chases in Atlanta.
COSTELLO: So none at all, no matter what they're chasing the person for?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, what they're saying now, and this is right out of the books, that they will go on a high speed chase if -- and this is right off the books -- the suspect possesses a deadly weapon, a threat of violence to others or has committed a crime where serious physical harm was inflicted or threatened. So we may see some but not nearly as many as we've seen over the last couple of years.
COSTELLO: Yes, you know, there's an out for that, because you could consider a car a deadly weapon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess you could. I guess you could. And they're, I guess what they're trying to say now is in the cases of like much smaller crimes and in drunk driving what they'll do is they'll solicit other police officers that are down the road and radio them rather than actually get into the chase themselves.
COSTELLO: Right. And set up sort of a roadblock to just block them and not actually chase them.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got it.
COSTELLO: Hey, thank you very much.
We'll see you next week or hear from you next week.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good talking to you.
COSTELLO: Bye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bye.
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