About 6 Percent of Pursuit Suspects Get Away, Data Shows
LAPD says about 6 percent of drivers who lead officers on pursuits escape on foot. On Monday, a man lead police on a chase for more than an hour before stopping in a dead-end alley in Pacoima, scaling several fences and disappearing. He still hadn’t been found late Tuesday. Gordon Tokumatsu reports from Downtown LA for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012.