‘Finally allowed to start catching bad guys’: Florida Highway Patrol pursuit policy differs from other law enforcement agencies

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‘Finally allowed to start catching bad guys’: Florida Highway Patrol pursuit policy differs from other law enforcement agencies

WEST PALM BEACH (CBS12) — Just before 3 a.m. on Feb. 2, Trooper Zachary Fink cruised alone in his patrol car. His only company were irregular blurbs from his radio and an occasional pair of passing headlights. Other drivers were sparse. Fink, 26, was just three years into his career on the Florida Highway Patrol after graduating from the academy in 2020. He was patrolling in Port St. Lucie when he heard radio chatter about a traffic-stop-turned…