Washington police see uptick in drivers refusing to stop
Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers and other law enforcement agencies agree.
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Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers and other law enforcement agencies agree.
The Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers - and other law enforcement agencies also say this is becoming a common occurrence, according to a report from The Northwest News Network.
The Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers - and other law enforcement agencies also say this is becoming a common occurrence.
The Northwest News Network\u00a0reports\u00a0that from January 1 to May 17 of this year, the agency logged 934 failure-to-yield incidents.
Since January of this year, more than 900 drivers have failed to stop for a Washington State Patrol trooper trying to pull them over. The patrol and other police agencies around the state say they’ve never seen such blatant disregard for theirlights and sirens.