About one-third of pursuits initiated by the Los Angeles Police Department between April 2023 and February 2025 ended in crashes, with the majority of those injured in pursuit crashes being innocent motorists and passengers, according to data presented by the department during a meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday, March 25.
During that timeframe, LAPD initiated 1,910 pursuits, with 616 resulting in traffic crashes leading to 384 injuries, the data show. Of the injured...