I wish I had something more thoughtful to add to your story, but now’s not the right time.

For now, as a last thought: We tend to think of what happens on the streets as so transient anyways that a high speed chase doesn’t leave a trace. I don’t know if that’s always the case, but I think it sometimes is. The ways in which the city remembers, I guess.

One, it’s interesting to note that you initially heard the sirens but the motorist next to you didn’t. Cyclists are prohibited by law from riding with headphones (27400. A person operating a motor vehicle or bicycle may not wear a headset covering, or earplugs in, both ears.) yet the motorist next to you can tool about town in an audio womb, completely insulated and isolated from the sounds of the street.

Two, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has called for police agencies nationwide to require periodic officer driver training.

“Although out-of-control motor vehicles cause more injuries than firearms, police officers typically qualify once or twice a year with their firearms but rarely are given additional driver training after they graduate from the basic police academy,” the federal agency said.

There is a “graveyard” for wrecked LAPD vehicles over at Piper Tech (downtown) that is sobering.

There is definitely a need for a policy on pursuits in densely populated communities. (2 peds were recently killed on H’wood Boulevard, in a crosswalk, by a motorist being pursued by LAPD)

One night I couldn’t get to sleep at my place in Lincoln Heights because some lousy police helicopter was buzzing our neighborhood for hours on end.

I went outside to see what was up, and the entire neighborhood was swarmed with police walking around in groups with dogs and armed with rifles in the middle of the street. The entire area was blocked off, and people were having their houses raided by cops with guns drawn.

Just another night in the city, I guess.