Depends on how you look at it. He took up resources that could better be spent on solving or preventing other crimes.  And the consequences of a collision gets worse with increased velocity, so while nothing happened today, the police acted in the public interest to prevent that. Or you could argue that increased speed leads to more pollution which harms the environment and thus everybody.

Either way he didn't follow the rules that were setup and got punished for it. Rightfully so.