How fast is too fast for the average police officer to chase you on foot?

When I was 19 I was visiting friends at college and walking up to one of the dorms, smoking a cigar with a bottle of liquor stuffed in the front of my pants when a cop pulled up to me and I ran. I ran across an open grass field with the cop immediately in pursuit yelling “Police!-Stop!” I ditched the booze in the field and when I came to a dry creek, I left the women’s fur coat I was wearing for dead so I was lighter and less recognizable. I kept running after I believed the cop had abandoned foot-chase, and hid behind some folded-up bleachers on the far side of a University athletic complex. Within 10 minutes a police car pulled up behind the building, and an officer shone his flashlight on the bleachers. I basically assumed I was caught at that point, and just waiting for the cop to say something before I stood with my hands up saying “Sorry, you got me.” But I was perfectly still, the cop moved on, got in his car and drove away. I guess I won that one.

Trying to outrun your society’s government powers—ambitious! C.f. enemy of the state, Fahrenheit 451.

alwayscheating wrote:

You're telling me you don't wear your cheaterflys to work? I always do so I'm 4% faster and then leave 4% earlier everyday.

4 % more efficient, not 4 % faster.

If you live anywhere other than Kenya, a 70 second 400 should be enough to shake them off. If you live in Kenya, good luck running away from Rudisha, Kiprop and Kamworwor.

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The last guy who tried got a lethal blow to the head and a shove off his balcony.

Mediumleaguechew wrote:

Trying to outrun your society’s government powers—ambitious! C.f. enemy of the state, Fahrenheit 451.

Funnily enough, I've been reading 'Rogue Male' by Geoffrey Household this week, considered the greatest 'man on the run' thriller. Published just before WWII, the central character is hunted all over Southern England by NAZI spies AND the British police after failing to assassinate Hitler. It actually contains a scene where he's being chased through the countryside by a pair of police officers and he's ruminating on the very subject of this thread. He says (to the reader) something about one of the policemen being a 'young and active sort' who looks like he could run the 'quarter mile' well under 60 seconds. But the gives him the initial slip and forces them to pursue him over field and hedgerow etc. and then he's confident of outrunning them because 'no more of this cinder track type stuff'.

Great book - I last read it in English class at school and was pleased that I enjoyed it as much second time around.

Speed Force User wrote:

Thoughts?

Sounds like you got something planned.

Like Grabbing an old ladys purse?

SPRINGDALE — A white Geo Metro, sporting a 70 horsepower engine, managed to elude officers from four Northwest Arkansas law enforcement agencies in high-speed chase Tuesday.

Police are searching for the man thought to have been driving the car, Charles Hammons, 32, of Springdale.

The car, which police say reached speeds of 110 mph, led them from Thompson Street in Springdale, where Springdale officers attempted to stop the vehicle for fictitious tags at approximately 10:10 a.m.

The driver floored the Metro, with police in pursuit.

The chase continued south on Thompson and west on Main Street in Johnson. The chase went down Main Street in Johnson at 60 mph, according to Chris McCarville, public information officer for the Springdale Police Department.

The Metro’s driver steered his vehicle on Interstate 540 and headed north, turning west on U.S. 412. He turned onto Old Highway 62 and the chase continued over several county roads in Benton County with Springdale police, the Arkansas State Police, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office all in pursuit.

The pursuit went cold at 10:28 a.m. when a Springdale police car wrecked on Logan Cave Road in Benton County.

Officers lost sight of the vehicle somewhere near Springtown after Springdale officer Stacy Bohannan lost control of the police car on the dirt road, spun out and hit an embankment. She was not injured in the wreck. The chase lasted 18 to 19 minutes and covered 24 miles, police said.

Wasn't 19.63 200m "x-man" Xavier Carter arrested by the cops after a footchase?

Here in Norway I believe 18min 5k. But that is normal cops that finished their bachelor degree in the last 5 years. Not counting specialists or office cops

If they call in the K9 unit, and the dog gets your scent, and you haven't gotten into a vehicle and drive away, they will find you. Maybe even 30 minutes after you think you've gotten away.

I uploaded a downhill 5K run to Smashrun. I ran a downhill 5K with 827 feet decent in 5K, which felt like I was cheating, I was absolutely for a 52 year old hobby jogger in 21:37. It was the fastest that I’ve run since 2012. Smashrun has awesome statistics, it gives out corny badges. It gave a Super Agent badge, because I can run faster than 95% of FBI agents. That is pretty pathetic if a hobbled runner like me can run faster 95% of FBI agents. ?