of those people had nothing at all to do with the police or
             criminal activity; they were "in the wrong place at the wrong time"
             (Kentucky Post, 2003). There are those who think that's too high a price,
             considering only 17 percent of those fleeing police are serious felony
             offenders, the article notes, adding that Kentucky put an instant remedy to
             that statistic by making it a felony to elude police by car. That
             effectively makes 100 percent of the targets of high-speed chases into
             felons, getting Kentucky statistically off the hook (Kentucky Post, 2003).
             However, the flesh and blood toll there, and elsewhere, remains. In May,
             2003, a Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Officer was killed while chasing a
             driver for unknown reasons. A Cincinnati officer was convicted of
             vehicular homicide in 1997 for "running a stop sign and hitting and killing
             a 19-year-old" (Kentucky Post, 2003).
             In 1997, 17-year-old James Ray Poole was killed after a vehicular
             pursuit that ended in Poole having a fatal crash. His family contended
             that once the police had the license number of the car Poole was driving
             erratically, they could have picked him up later instead of engaging in a
             120-mph pursuit for 14 miles (Rutledge, 1997). Poole's car hit an
             embankment and overturned when Poole was one-quarter mile ahead of the
             On June 15 of the same year, Cincinnati Officer Gregory Berting
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