EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio— East Cleveland police chases happened in rapid succession early this year, sometimes two or three per day.
The sheer volume of the chases from the poorest city in Ohio made cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer take a closer at the chases, why they happened and how they ended.
Reporters gathered police reports and or police dispatch logs from each of the chases, and broke down each chase into different categories, including why police tried to stop the car in the first place, the top speed of the chase and who was arrested.
Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer analyzed 105 police chases in East Cleveland over the first 120 days of 2021. Find all our stories -- including on the city’s financial distress, the police department’s demographics and the law that was supposed to stop the wild pursuits -- here.
The analysis also sought to break down exactly how many times police found a violent criminal, or mass amounts of guns or drugs. A person could be charged with three crimes related to one gun. We broke it down to show the percentage of chases that led to a gun seizure, for example.
East Cleveland police did not include narratives of the chase or incident in their reports. Some of the reports were not for car chases, but for foot pursuits. Those incidents were not included in the analysis.
We found East Cleveland launched 105 chases in the first four months of the year. Here is a breakdown of those chases:
Reason for the chases
27 – Number of reports that did not clearly list a reason for the stop, leaving 78 chases to analyze for why police tried to stop the car in the first place.
17- Number of cars stopped a car with tinted windows.
16- Number of cars stopped for license plate violations.
39 – Number of minor traffic infractions, including speeding and running a red light as the cause for stops.
Speed (16 reports did not clearly list the top speed)
67 – The average top speed of the remaining chases was 67 miles per hour.
121 – The fastest chase topped out at 121 miles per hour.
88% -- Percentage of chases that topped out at 50 miles per hour or more.
71% -- Percentage of chases that topped out at 60 miles per hour or more
50.5% -- Percentage of chases that topped out at 70 miles per hour or more.
Arrests
100% -- Percentage of people arrested for chases that are Black. All 63 people arrested are Black.
50+% -- More than half of East Cleveland police officers are white.
91% -- Percentage of people in East Cleveland who are Black, according to census data.
73% -- Percentage of people arrested under 30 years old.
What happened?
40- Number of chases that ended in crashes, about 39 percent.
22- Number of chases that where police found guns or illegal drugs other than marijuana, or 21.9 percent.
2 – Number of deaths during police chases in 2021. In one case, police tried to stop the driver for speeding on a motorcycle. In the other, police said “possible drug activity” led to the other chase.
1 – Number of drivers shot and killed following a chase. Vincent Belmonte, 19, was fatally shot while running from police after he stopped his car during a chase. That chase started because police believed the car was stolen.
11.8 – Average number of police chases end in death in Ohio, from 2015-2019, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
3.2 -- Average number of police chases that end in death in Cuyahoga County from 2015-2019, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
When do chases happen?
49 – Most chases happen between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The hours that most chases happened were the 11 a.m. hour (11) and 3 p.m. hour (10)
24 – The most chases by day of the week was Tuesdays, with 24. The next was Saturdays with 17.
Police officers involved in the most chases
31 – Demarco Johnson
26- Travis Thompson
23 – Michael Taylor
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