Paul Victor Farris

THE PAUL FARRIS WEBSITE HAS SUFFERED A MASSIVE CRASH, WITH MOST PAGES LOST. WE ARE UNSURE WHETHER IT CAN BE RESTORED OR IF IT WILL NEED TO BE REBUILT.  IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE VISIT PURSUITFORCHANGE.ORG TO FIND SOME OF PAUL’S STORIES. AND CONTACT US IF YOU WANT PAUL’S PHOTOS OR MUSIC.

Please click here to see our 2023 Holiday Greeting!

MAY THERE ALWAYS BE MUSIC AND LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE

November 2, 2023 is our 17th missed birthday. Happy 40th Paul. Read the post here

May 27, 2023 is sixteen years since Paul was taken… Read the post here

November 2, 2022. Sixteen Birthdays. Read and see more here


Taken Away Too Soon

This website is a place you can visit and reflect about Paul, about the frailty of life or whatever else matters to you. We use this and our PursuitForChange.org sites to tell Paul’s story and to advocate for significantly safer police pursuits, because if simple judgment had been used on May 27, 2007, Paul would still be alive.

Paul’s spirit will live with us forever. We continue to do all that Paul would expect of us and we hope you will too. 

Soen River”. LISTEN HERE

All these words that I left unspoken
I will say when I meet you again.
I see you but I can’t feel your presence
I feel you but you’re fading away.

Riverside “Towards the Blue Horizon”. LISTEN HERE

Where are you now my friend?
I miss those days

I hope they take good care of you there
And you can still play the guitar
And sing your songs
I just miss those days
And miss you so
Wish I could be strong
When darkness comes

Updates:

> The man who killed Paul was granted his initial parole in March 2022 and full parole in March 2023. It’s still hard to believe that
someone can kill two people and not be put away for life…
Fourteen years 5/27/2021
> No parole for the man who killed Paul. Read more here
> November 2, 2020. Fourteen Birthdays. Read and see more here
> The Another “Anniversary”. Read and see more here
> The man who killed Paul was DENIED BAIL in February 2020. Read more

> Thirteen Birthdays; Remembering Paul.  11/2/2019  Read more
> Jon Farris remains in the news. Many more stories at our Pursuit For Change website here
> 12 missed birthdays. 11/2/2018 Read more

> See Paul’s dad speaking with NBC Boston on August 17, 2018 here

“Police pursuits, for the most part, are merely a passing newspaper story or television
headline, forgotten by readers and viewers a few minutes later.
But for the hundreds of relatives and thousands of friends of these innocent
victims, the pain is real and never goes away. Never.

– Jonathan Farris, May 2007
10 Birthdays
I live in a different world than many of you. For ten years Roberta and I have taken
November 2nd as a remembrance day. As a rest day. Generally as a be-by-ourselves day…
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Hear Jon tell USA Today the story of Paul
I hear people say that time heals the pain.
Well, it doesn’t. Not even a little bit.
Time does strengthen me.
Time does allow me to hide the hurt so you need not
live with it as I do – every day of my life.
 ~ jgf