Stop Chasing

This was a chase, until Groot claimed it wasn't a chase, and then after Groot was gone, the City admitted it was probably a chase and accepted liability. Now taxpayers are out nearly $80 million:

• A Cook County jury awarded $79.89 million to a South Shore family whose 10-year-old girl was killed in a car crash caused by a Chicago police chase in 2020.

  The city of Chicago has admitted responsibility for the fatal crash in Auburn Gresham that killed Da’Karia Spicer on Sept. 2, 2020. Her father, Kevin Spicer, and her little brother, Dhaamir Spicer, were also in the car. They suffered injuries but survived.

  The five-day trial was to determine the amount of damages the city owes her family. Last month, the city admitted responsibility for the fatal wreck after initially denying any fault.

The City and Department has said for over a decade now, stop chasing. In this case, a ten-year-old died and we have no answers for any of it. 

We have in-car cameras, car GPS, intersection cameras, PODs and body cameras that will prove - beyond any shadow of a doubt - that you didn't chase when the subject fled the traffic stop, thereby absolving you and taxpayers of any liability for whatever happens afterward.

Until politicians are willing to pass laws and delegate responsibility for what criminals inflict on innocent citizens, pursuits are a losing proposition.