As far as high speed chasin'.
I ran library services for the blind and physically handicapped for Georgia in the early seventies. We were in an old farmer's market with surplus popular, a training facility for disabled and a department of education film library. A weigh scale was at the entrance and the facility was in the drive-by opening of the Claude Akins trucker series "Movin On" in the mid seventies. I'd come in to work late and the guard was often sleaping in the scale house with his gun out on the table next to his head. I'd try to sign in without having him shoot me. About twenty totaled state police cars were between my building and a chain link fence, they were cleaned out a couple of times a year and the process started again. Occasionally someone would jump the fence, hotwire a car and run through the fence. I remember the guard opening fire at the miscreant on a couple of occasions. I always figured a third of the cars were lost by hitting the miscreant, a third driving off the road, and a third hitting innocent bystanders.
About five years ago I ran into a South Dakota Highway Patrolman in a rest area on the way to the Black Hills and relived my seventies memories. He said they seldom wrecked cars because cars were better, they used technology rather than high speed chases, they were better trained then they were fifty years ago, and South Dakota was a bigger state with less than a tenth of the people in Georgia.
Maybe the Altimas represent a simple change in policing.