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Two months before Kristie was killed, she shared something with me: "Mom, in health class, I learned how to become an organ donor. If I were to die, I want to donate my organs. What good would they do me anyway?"
Kristie's decision — Kristie's choice — gave the gift of life to four people.
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4,500-plus innocent bystanders killed since 1982. Now, crashes due to police chases and emergency-response calls kill more than one person a day, and a third of those killed are innocent bystanders. Police vehicular pursuits kill at least three innocent bystanders every week in the United States. |
| '24' Actor Glenn Morshower shares a personal message about public safety and vehicular police pursuits
Glenn says, "It has everything to do with risk versus reward. In many cases, where the suspect poses no immediate danger to the public, it's the chase itself that causes the threat. This is not an anti-police campaign. I am a huge supporter of what it is police do. I just believe policy and procedure are there for a reason and need to be followed." To view his video, click on Glenn's image. Learn why Glenn Morshower became involved in PursuitSAFETY, a national nonprofit organization working for a safer way to protect the innocent. |
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Not one of these deaths resulted from a chase to catch a murderer, rapist or pedophile. ... and there was no dead body in the trunk.
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..Brandon Harper
..Halley Lee ..Teale Sisson Desiree Guzman Steven Aveles . . Jason Siebert
More pictures & names of — and tributes to — victims of this crime.
Kristie's Law
Deadly Pursuit
Kristie's Law is a proposed measure first introduced to the California state legislature in 2003. It directly and pro-actively addresses safety standards to minimize the risk injuries and deaths related to vehicular police pursuits for the public and peace officers. Kristie's Law will create standards to ensure police pursuits are conducted in a response to an immediate threat to life or a serious crime. Another life-saving necessity is to require officers to follow their own agency's pursuit policy. California State Senator Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley is the author of Kristie's Law.
California: The Daily Journal, Perspectives—September 30, 2009—Underneath that rigid view of right and wrong is an implicit balancing test diminishing the value of the persons drawing the negative lottery ticket. That human roadblock [innocent bystander] is an abstract entity until the number is drawn. Thereafter, it is Kristie Priano. More on California's one specific area of law which is shamefully unique among the fifty states; it's Not So Black and White.
Worldwide, advocates for Kristie's Law believe in law and order. People who break the law, no matter what the crime, need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Advocates believe the penalty for fleeing and eluding should be mandatory prison time.
. Survey Results: What do you think should be the police's first priority in a high-speed chase? Answer. |
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