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Police Chases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Our
main story tonight concerns police
chases. They're famously a staple of
action movies and cop shows, a time
filler on local news, and also the
subject of a series of late '9s TV
specials, VHS tapes, and a spin-off show
hosted by former Sheriff John Bernell, a
man with a flare for the dramatic. Some
crooks think a motorcycle is the
ultimate escape vehicle. But when it
comes to winning pursuits, any cop will
tell you it's not what you drive, it's
how you drive. When an angry driver
takes his personal problems on the road,
it's called road rage. It can turn a
normal person into a violent criminal.
Drunks don't know when to stop drinking,
and drunk drivers don't know when to
stop driving. The weather can be the
deciding factor in a pursuit. When it's
good, we take it for granted. But when
it's bad, it could mean disaster. So,
buckle up. In the next hour, you'll see
some of the most terrifying moments
police cameras have ever captured. So,
buckle up because the chase is on. So,
buckle up. This is your first class
ticket to high-speed action, and you're
in the driver's seat.
But hold on. You're not even in the
driver's seat. You haven't BEEN THE
WHOLE TIME. STILL, SAY WHAT YOU will
about John Bernell, like that he
delivers lines with the subtlety of a
community theater actor's understudy
while dressed like the star of a Sealis
commercial. He is right to imply that
police chases can be dangerous. And for
a long time, we didn't know exactly how
dangerous because the federal government
doesn't reliably track deaths from them.
But when the San Francisco Chronicle
recently compiled their own database,
they found over a 6-year period, more
than 3,300 people died nationwide in
police pursuits, that's an average of
nearly two a day. On top of which, a
majority of those killed weren't even
the fleeing drivers, with over 500 of
the victims innocent bystanders. All of
which is probably why a DOJ report once
called high-speed chases, possibly the
most dangerous of all ordinary police
activities, with a former sheriff
describing them as like firing a 4,000lb
bullet down the street. A visual that
I'm pretty sure just gave Wayne
Laapiierre a life-threatening boner.
[laughter] And the thing is, even when
chases don't end tragically, they can
still do a ton of damage, as this man
experienced last year. A car being
chased by West Memphis police hit this
man's home in South Memphis on
Halloween. Why would y'all come over
here chasing somebody and then he hits a
innocent bystander's house? I'm the off
because I feel like they did not go
through protocol and they need to keep
that over there.
>> Yeah, he's completely right there
because you expect to see certain things
in a front yard on Halloween. pumpkins,
fake cobwebs, one of those towering
skeleton decorations that looks like
Jacob Lordi got electrocuted, but not a
car wreck caused by a police chase. And
while fleeing drivers are usually
depicted in movies and TV shows as
violent criminals, in real life that is
rarely the case, researchers found
roughly 90% of pursuits are initiated
because of traffic violations. And the
reasons people tend to flee are often
relatively mundane, from their license
being suspended to being on probation to
simply saying they feared the police.
And this combination of high stakes
chases over low stakes infractions has
resulted in situations like this totally
preventable tragedy in Georgia. Larry
Turner still can't believe his best
friend of 30 years is gone.
>> I lost my brother.
>> 60-year-old William Johnson was killed
Sunday just before noon as he waited on
a red light at McAfee in Candler. That's
when this speeding SUV came out of
nowhere and crashed into him. Turner was
floored when he learned a Georgia state
trooper was chasing the driver of the
SUV for a seat belt violation.
>> It's just not worth losing a life or
even being injured. It's just not worth
it over a seat belt.
>> Exactly. Because that is absurd. The
whole point of a seat belt law was to
keep people safe on the road. So, it's
more than a little counterproductive to
then enforce it by turning the road into
a NASCAR track. And that is not
a one-off. Of the fatal chases the
Chronicle was able to review in depth.
Over 1,500 people died in pursuits
initiated over traffic infractions,
non-violent crimes, or indeed no crime
at all. In fact, people have died in
chases that started with attempted
police stops for things as petty as
having tinted windows or a broken tail
light, which is just ridiculous because
someone who hasn't gotten around to
fixing their tail light doesn't deserve
to be dangerously chased by the police.
What they deserve is an ADHD diagnosis.
In fact, if anyone with a broken tail
light is watching this show right now, I
have an important message for you. You
have clothes in the dryer. They've been
in there for days. Get them out. So,
given [laughter] all of that, tonight,
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