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You'll soon be watching on your cable news, the video taken of the car in DC driving on the chase. You'll never see this in a staged movie.

1. After the car is stopped facing guard posts, no officer decides to park cars around the vehicle, jamming it. So the woman driver is able to back up, spin the front end around and drive away.

2. When she circles counter-clockwise around an island in the blvd, two police cars circle around behind her, the second car in the "chain" arrived and followed without thinking to turn his car in an angle and block the circular drive.

Hence she just came around the second time, then sped off in a forward direction.

The news casters kept saying these forces are highly trained. I think they should add watching action movies to the training.

When she was first stopped, she was surrounded by a half dozen officers, guns drawn, none firing. But they could have shot her tires out. Or someone could have thrown down chains of tacks around her tires. Something.

Isn't there a plan for apprehending and completely stopped vehicle? Here's my hi-tech idea. At least spin pursuing vehicles sideways in front and back and force the vehicle to push or topple over other vehicles. But this woman had a clear shot to back up and spin out of the situation.

Suggestion: Vehicle is stopped. Forces pull up and out rolls a speedy robotic low-level device that flies under the vehicle and jacks it up until the wheels are off the ground. Can all be done by laser sensitive devices, and/or pressure devices that detect when the vehicle is off the surface.

Another device would be a rapid collapsable BLOCK that surrounds a tire, resulting in a basic SQUARE tire.

Or, some kind of ACME devise the Road Runner might have used.
 
So she's unarmed, gets out of the car and starts running away and they open fire on her? I know she was endangering people with the vehicle, but she had left that behind with the child in it and posed no imminent threat at that point. Doesn't seem like a justifiable use of lethal force. Well, in Austin maybe.

I did get a kick out of the cop in the video that was so fat he couldn't run.
 
Hu, you apparently never watch "Worlds Wildest Police Videos." All of the dumb moves that you describe are shown every week, and most are in LA. They'll follow a perp round and around in circles, follow at 20 mph if the perp is too, let a driver go 70+ down city streets waiting for them to run out of gas or crash, which they usually do.

Vids from Texas or the South in general show the DPS or deputies saying "**** this" and then they ram 'em off the road.
 

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