In the movies, a police car careens through crowded city streets and mangled vehicles pile up, but the collateral damage is almost never mentioned. In real life, those chases have fatal consequences. ...

Jázmin sought care in California's for-profit psychiatric hospitals. But rather than help, they subjected her to chaotic conditions.

Across the country, police chases claim nearly 700 lives a year. Black people are far more likely to die from them.

This cross-sectional study examines rates of police pursuit fatalities in the US from 2017 to 2021.

Police chases kill nearly two people a day across the US, and the government is failing at nearly every level to address the growing problem.

Members of Congress called upon federal agencies to improve their police pursuit data collection Wednesday, following a Chronicle investigation.