No one is above the law

A nation cannot have wellbeing and function successfully without rules. Though some rules the United States enforces seem rediculous and serve no purpose, it is still the citizen's responsibility to follow them accordingly. No one is above the law.
Unfortunately, many Americans have or will experience a speeding ticket at one point in their life. The process of being pulled over and put under the authority of a powerful officer is frightening for everyone, and the best way to handle this process is to simply be respectful and do as the officer says. However, some Americans take it upon themselves to try and beat the authorities by speeding away, causing the officer to chase them down and endangering all the bystanders.
In 2001, a 19-year-old driver became a quadriplegic after trying to esape from a police officer; now, the boy and his family are claiming the police officer who hit his car is to blame for the tragedy. The police officer says he did not violate any codes and was commanded to handle the situation as he did. Ironically, the boy who claimed the police officer should be held completely accountable for the accident was not wearing a seat belt during the accident.
So would it be safer for everyone if the police officials simply let the runners get away with pursuing them? The short term answer is most likely yes. However, our world would go to choas because no one would answer to enforcing officers. The long term answer is no; if police officers were to allow runners to get away from the scene without chasing them, everyone would drive like maniacs because even if you were caught driving recklessly, it would be easy to get away with it. If cops were told they can no longer pursue citizens who run from them, we might as well not even have any road rules to follow. Imagine the number of fatalities that would occur without any sort of driving system to follow.