Car-Jackers Crash Into Synagogue, Die

This was a typical New Haven high speed police chase. The New Haven Police did not "lose sight of the car" that they were pursuing. They always say that after a high speed chase. The cops know that they are not supposed to endanger the public with these ridiculous Dukes of Hazard high speed police chases. A number of years ago I was a witness to a high speed police chase on Whitney Ave. The cops chased the car all the way downtown. The car ended up crashing into a utility pole downtown with people all over the place. The news release was the same as this one. The cops said that they had lost sight of the car. They did not lose sight of the car. I was there. They chased that car all the way downtown. They were lucky that car didn't mow down ten people. Nobody crashes into a utility pole or a synagogue and gets killed unless they have a cop on their tail.

How many people have later been killed by criminals getting away from cops who were ordered not to chase criminals?

Police officers are not in control of these situations. In this case, the person driving this stolen vehicle made a conscious decision to evade the police and unfortunately paid the price. The police are not to blame.

What exactly is being said by EDPD? The police should not have done anything when they saw this vehicle? I knew as soon as I heard this story that somehow someone would blame the police. Unbelievable!!

The odds of an accident happening during a high speed police chase are far higher than an accident occurring if the car being pursued is not chased. Even if the pursued car continued to drive at a high speed, two cars driving at high speeds is double the danger than one car driving at a high speed, especially when the drivers are chasing each other and think they are in a Starsky and Hutch tv show.

The fact is, it's a violent felony and there is reported to be a gun involved. The officer exercised good judgment by not lighting the vehicle up right away but waiting for other officers to get into the area to coordinate the stop. Some attempt has to be made to apprehend these criminals. As I said before, the officer has no control over what happens after the lights go on. About the only thing they can do is discontinue pursuit.

The incident will be investigated by the CSP and the SA's office and we'll see what happened.

It's just easier to hate and blame the police. The clowns that drove off in the vehicle and killed themselves, totally not to blame.

Welcome to New Haven, where you can do what you want and you will be loved for it.

@EPDP

Why don't you tell the police whew you live so they don't rush there when you need them, because at some point you will.

They clogged up traffic for weeks to put in the stupidest meridian of all time. I thought it was dangerous and actually said that I didn't think it would keep people from crashing their cars here or on the part of Whalley in front of the cemetery where they put the other needless meridian. It was sketchy enough biking through here before they shrunk the street. My friend nearly died turning her car over right here years ago. They are wasting money making the street harder to navigate, plow, and bike and they have installed gardens in the sewers? Everything is closing in Westville, people are getting carjacked and someone robbed the little store on Alden. Westville renaissance my foot it's more like our dark ages.

Hundreds of crimes are committed every day in New Haven county and the cops do not have the time or the manpower to arrest everyone. People at the highest levels of government and industry commit crime all the time, with impunity, as we saw with the presidential election and the 2008 housing crash. Letting one car thief go free in order to save innocent lives will not result in anarchy on the streets of New Haven. Society should focus more on crime prevention than Hollywood police shows that turn the modern young cop into an urban John Wayne.

So the police was not suppose to chase?? I support the cops 100/% ..People are sick and tired of the bad guys taking things they worked for...why must people continue to be victims without any repercussion from the bad guy or the court system who pat them on the wrist, if they promise to be good little boys for a couple of months and then they go out and continue to commit henious crime and reck havoc on law abiding citizens.. People are tired of being victims and are going to start fighting back..I sympathize for the families of these two young men but they made the choice to die that night when they carjack that man and then knowingly made the choice to flee the police because they knew what they had done...now for starters I want the protesters to go out there and March because these kids made a bad choice that cause them to die not the police...until people are willing to take their community back these crimes will continue to happen because excuses are made and of the famous words " he was a good boy he was just getting it together.ye right ..together enough to commit another crime....why can't people be realist anymore and call it the way they really see it meaning the TRUTH...

EPDP

Crimes like these effect everyday people. Officers have to make an attempt to apprehend criminals or New Haven becomes Chiraq, where the gangs have taken over entire sections of the City.

We've seen in Baltimore and Chicago (Chiraq) that when the police back off, crime soars along with the body count.

EPDP I'm curious- if the carjackers had shot the victim and then fled the scene, would you support the cops chasing then? Is the chase ever warranted?