Cops are so boring

I’ve been playing for a while now. Perhaps 20 hrs. The game is good, it it fun to race in and customise cars. But my god are the cop boring.  
In my last hour of gameplay I’ve attempted to start maybe 3 different events but couldn’t as constantly having cops chase me. I get that running away and taking them down is part of the game, but I play on the relaxed settings and they just keep coming wave after wave. 
I only get a few hours a week to game, and I would like to spend that time racing, not constantly taking out and running from cops.