I see there is a railing in the pic. When I visited less than a decade ago there was no safety rail, and nobody there to stop you from being an idiot. Plenty of people seemed to be taking advantage of this at the time.

Sure, agreed. In this case however the criminal was refusing to be detained to be prosecuted, and was clearly willing to do anything to avoid it, trying to flee in his car.

As unfortunate as it was, this outcome is preferable to him crashing and killing an innocent victim while fleeing.

There is one less criminal on the street. Why is that a bad thing?