Cleveland’s street takeovers resolved without chases -- or deaths of innocent bystanders

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O’Malley’s recent call to loosen Cleveland police chase policies is based on a false premise that chases are the only way to capture hooligans who take over Cleveland intersections on street bikes, say the hosts of the Today in Ohio podcast.

Thursday’s discussion centered on the recent sentencing of Tyrique Loury , one of the ringleaders of the street takeovers that disrupted the city last year. Loury received nine months behind bars and three years probation. The sentencing concluded nearly two dozen prosecutions of the people involved in the takeovers – a resolution that came without a single high-speed chase.

“And what Mike O’Malley is arguing is that we should have high speed chases to catch people who are basically hooligans,” said cleveland.com e