First, I believe we all agree that not having an outstanding warrant or being in the process of fleeing your crime scene would be helpful. Once you start running and the pursuit begins, you are sort of at the mercy of whoever catches you first. Stopping quickly or not running in the first place usually means you are only dealing with one or possibly two officers. If you run and all of the surrounding departments have a chance to converge on your bail out, you stand a pretty good chance of being dog piled. No guaranty but stopping for the first officer and getting on your knees or on your face makes it less likely you will be thrown to the ground. Listening to the officers commands and doing what you are told increased the chance that you will not get your shoulder dislocated and a knee in the small of your back.

Some variation of the Use of Force Continuum is taught in every LE academy in the country.

http://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforc...continuum.aspx

Last, pray that there are lots of people video taping your interaction with the police. The ubiquitous nature of video cameras in the USA is IMO what is driving many of today's issues.