More utter nonsense.
The rider knew he had lost the police tail even before he reached the barrier, when the van turned off the barriered street.
As said, he was no longer under any pressure of any sort when he went though the barrier and into another street with no police following or in sight.
To say the rider would be "sh1t1ng himself" after losing the tail is even greater nonsense, especially since we know how hardened he was in regard to the police, given his extensive history with them.
I'm not against the principle of some of the things you are saying, indeed I go much further and think police road chases should not be allowed at all under most circumstances, since there are more intelligent and much safer ways of handling such situations.
But how policing is carried out is not under the control of the police, it's dictated by the Home Office who are in charge of policing policy. So it's only through the politicians that such changes can be effected. Given the way the public are forever demanding more enforcement and harder sentencing, there's little chance of such a change.
You call the police bullies, but in effect that is what they are taught to be as a matter of policy. At Hendon here in London we have by far the largest police training school in the country, regularly having military style passing out parades on completion of training, emphasising their para-military nature since the the changes wrought by Thatcher in the 1980s.
A major part of that training is that the police have to take command of any situation, enforcing that command and control as necessary, which of course includes physical force. That is the bullying of which you speak, restraint which has killed a number of people being arrested or when in custody.
As said above, these matters can only be changed through political action, the police are powerless to change them.
There have been attempts at change, "fast tracking" being a notable example in London. Under this Home Office policy, university graduates were being recruited to the police with the promise of fast promotion, the aim being to considerably improve the intellectual ability of police officers.
It's had limited success though and one notorious failure. It all amounts to something obvious, policing is not just difficult, it's impossible to do to everyone's satisfaction.
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