Ok so let's look at the default setting here at GTAM to posts like this. Cops showed up at my door saying that my plate was recorded as being involved in X, Y, or Z...what should I do. GTAM reply SAY NOTHING, if you had your helmet on, they can't id who was riding the bike, your a free man/woman.. So explain to us how "getting the plate" is sufficent? If the officer can't identify the rider? Not sure about yours but my helmet isn't see through. So putting the copper at a desk because he was doing his/her job, would be not possible.
Might I suggest, that you gain some real world experience. I can tell you, not all pursuits are justified, nor have I said officers should pursue at each opportunity. That is part of the job to make split second decisions, but officers are still human and just like you and I at times they may make what in hindsight may appear to be have been the wrong decision. I can also tell you from personal experience that when involved in a high stress pursuit, (not all pursuits are the same), it can become quite possible for the officer to develop "tunnel vision" in that apprehending the offender becomes the only option. But those types of pursuits, (at least in my experience), are very very rare.
Weather you "think" the first response is to run is merely ancedotal at best. The VAST VAST majority of people when confronted with a set of lights stop. Their default setting is not to run, therefore, it is NOT a "programmed response" Fight or flight response in humans, is built in, to kick in, when presented to EXTREME potential danger. Seeing lights on a car roof hardly qualifies as EXTREME potential danger. If the fight or flight response was a progammed response then it wouldn't be "programmed in" to some but not others it would be "programmed in" to everyone. Therefore, logic dictates if only a small percentage react in this manner then it is something, within that particular person(ality), not an automatic triggered response mechanism.
Even if one were to concede the fight or flight was programmed in, then surely on a protracted pursuit the rider should be able to override this response with the stronger and certainly programmed in "survival mode". Then the rider "should" be able to make the reasoned argument that stopping is the best possible course. Many choose not to stop because then they don't wnat to face the consequences of their CHOICE.
To state that a person initial response is automatic and uncontrollable is ludicrous. We as humans are face daily with hundreds, if not thousands, of "initial reactions" yet we seem to be able to control our response to the "appropriate response". To say that, seeing an officers lights, somehow overrides what we instinctually do hundreds of times daily is not possible. But please feel free to post any studies that have been completed, that state your position is supported by facts, and not ancedotal.