Harris decision, “The Supreme Court refused to fashion a rule requiring law enforcement officers to abandon pursuit of fleeing suspects whenever they drive so recklessly that they place the lives of the public in danger,” writes PoliceOne columnist Mike Callahan. Further, the Court ruled that fleeing from police may be suspicious enough in itself to justify pursuit ( Illinois v. Chesternut, 1988) and that pursuit itself does not equal detention or seizure ( California v. In three cases from 1988 through 2000, the SCOTUS reversed state and appellate decisions to rule that police can lawfully pursue a subject ( Michigan v. PURSUIT AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: 3 CASES This focus on intent renewed scrutiny of police pursuit policy, and many law enforcement agencies abandoned the stationary roadblock after this decision. SCOTUS unanimously ruled that such a roadblock constitutes a seizure under the Fourth Amendment, but justices were divided 5-4 on whether governmental intent is required, distinguishing accidental detainment from deliberate pursuit and seizure. County of Inyo was sparked by the death of a fleeing suspect who crashed the stolen car he was driving into a police roadblock. The SCOTUS decision expanded on its previous Garner decision and provided three criteria for evaluating the reasonableness of the use of force: the severity of the crime, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat and whether the suspect is resisting arrest or fleeing. Connor (1989), the plaintiff filed a Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit against several police officers and the City of Charlotte, alleging excessive use of force and unlawful restraint. Garner, it is clear that force must be proportionate to the danger the fleeing person represents.” GRAHAM V. A 1990 report on police pursuits for the NIJ says: “Under Tennessee v. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the use of deadly force to prevent the escape of any fleeing suspected felon unless the suspect poses a “significant threat” to the officer or the community and other means have been exhausted. Here are several key cases that have shaped police pursuit policies in the past four decades. Supreme Court has reversed these decisions. Plaintiffs may prevail at the state and appellate level, but in many cases, the U.S. High-speed chases are often cast as use of deadly force in court.
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