Can metro Detroit overtake metro LA?

[Ray1936]

Los Angeles, for at least the last decade, has been known as the car chase capital of the world. In reading the News and Freep the last few days, all I see is stories about police chases in the metro Detroit area -- two, today alone.

Perhaps the only thing inhibiting Detroit police chase publicity is that the news gatherers in LA have many more helicopters than Detroit.

The latest: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22149759/detail.html

[detlump]

Won't happen. Too many more people in LA, plus many more miles of roads.

[hudkina]

I think it has to do with how they are covered. In Los Angeles ever since the era when the OJ Simpsons "chase" was a ratings bonanza the local news their has covered them intensely. Here, police pursuits aren't covered by the local media, and therefore don't get as much attention.

[MichMatters]

Actually, highspeed highway chases [[and highspeed highway shoot-outs) are a mostly LA area phenomenon, and it does have to do with how the city developed [[the sheer size and amount of its freeways) and its culture. LA really does have a freeway culture unlike any other.