Does flight from the police constitute a crime?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Brown, 2015 NY Slip Op 50046 (U) (N.Y. 2015):
Because a person has no obligation to cooperate with the police, it stands to reason that a person's failure to cooperate with a police investigation, including a person's flight from the police, flight from the police, does not, as a general rule, constitute a crime.2 Accordingly, for example, in People v. Perez, 47 AD3d 1192, 1193-94 (4th Dep't 2008), defendant's conviction for OGA was reversed because his refusal
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