“Well, this is what happens when you don’t stop for the police,” he replied"

From the Charleston Post and Courier: The darkened, wooded landscape whipped by as Hanahan police officer Travis Lanphere tried to keep up with a gold sedan that receded from view as it raced around a curve and deeper into the night.

Lanphere radioed to his dispatcher that his quarry, a late-model Lexus, was topping 100 mph.

Clouds of dust greeted the officer as he rounded the bend. He turned to his left and saw the luxury car lying on its roof in a wooded field. Seconds later, he was out of his cruiser and running....

The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office identified those killed Wednesday as Patrick Graham, 19, and Martin Pinckney, 18, both of North Charleston. They died from head and body trauma, Coroner Bill Salisbury said.

The vehicle’s driver, Shaylynn Nichole Capers, 17, of Ballantine Drive in Summerville, and a third passenger were taken to Medical University Hospital for treatment, the Highway Patrol said. The driver was the only person in the vehicle wearing a seat belt.

The pursuit finally ended when the vehicle crashed in a wooded field at the end of Foster Creek Road, just south of Henry Brown Boulevard.

Authorities found Graham on the ground about 30 feet from the wreck with a loaded 9 mm pistol in his pants and his head crushed, according to a police report. Pinckney lay nearby with multiple wounds and a large amount of blood. He died en route to a hospital, police said.

The video captures Lanphere attempting to calm and console Capers, the driver, who he found screaming and hanging halfway out the front passenger window.

She complained of pain and asked how her friends were doing. He told her to concentrate on herself and that she had a serious gash to her face.

When the officer asked her who was driving, she said it was her.

“That was you?” he asked, and questioned why she didn’t stop.

“Because they told me not to,” she said.

“Well, this is what happens when you don’t stop for the police,” he replied....

Police determined that the Lexus had been reported stolen from Dorchester County. The three guns found at the scene had been reported stolen from a home on Steeplechase Lane on Tuesday in a burglary in which a wine bottle had been used to smash a window, police said.

Multiple other stolen items were recovered in and around the vehicle, police said....

The outcome, and others like it, have some questioning whether local law enforcement agencies should abandon such pursuits, excluding the most crucial of incidents.

Supporters of pursuits argue that abandoning the option to chase would give criminals a free hand.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130405/PC16/130409589/1165/hanahan-police-chase-ends-in-double-fatality-in-berkeley-county-guns-stolen-items-found-in-car

In this case, the world got rid of the DNA of two thugs, prison time for the other 2, more than likely.

And the down side of this police chase is what?