Originally posted by Red92784: Couldn't they like pull in front of them and shoot at the radiater?
That would stop em' pretty soon.
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You, my friend, definitely need to stop watching TV.
Would be safer than pitting the car at 100+. I've seen chases where cops shoot out tires and such, that wasnt in movies. shows like real TV or cops have those chases on all the time.
Most states tell troopers to let the car go, if they dont have a very good reason to stop it. In this case they didnt. Spike strips are constantly used in high traffic... and if you ever watch cops use spike strips, they throw them out... car goes over them, then they yank them back as the cop car thats chasing the car goes by... takes 1/2 a second. They could've done something else besides killing people. Cops dont have that right. Yes, the SUV was endangering other motorists lifes... but thats when the cops need to decided to let it go. Besides, for a suspended license... chasing the car for that long is pointless, and they already had the plates on the car, and they saw who was driving it. Why not let the car go, and go back to the house and wait for the person to show up. Been done before...
Look at it from the oppisite point of view. Why would someone only guilty of DWS run like that. Could possibly be that the passenger was kidnapped or being held hostage. The officers didn't know that either. It makes no sense to run like that for such a minor violation, and so prudence suggests that something more is going on. Therefore, the police have an interest in investigating further, hence continuing the chase.
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