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Originally Posted by Salty Dog
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Originally Posted by MKSixer
Many thanks for your input. I was about to PM and ask for it anyway so perfect timing.
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I've only seen snippets of the pursuit and gunfight. Frighting. I was hesitating whether or not to weigh in as these things always get quite animated. Folks have very strong views on everything LE does.
I've probably been in more than 2 dozen pursuits, some went text book and other turned into demolition derbies. Just about every single one ended with the suspect involved in a collision, often very serious.
Some of the pursuits lasted over an hour and others just seconds. Just about the most unpredictable things you can imagine. The training has gotten much better and so has policy which generally varies from agency to agency but it has been evolving over the years. Some departments use PIT others forbid it, some have stop sticks others do not.
The one thing I can say for sure is nobody knows how it will end, and the police are usually in a very bad position regardless of what they do.
Sorry if that's long winded but I could literally write a book on this topic. |
We JUST got authorization to use the PIT technique. When I was with the highway patrol, PIT and stop sticks were tools that we had. Now that I'm County, we don't have Stop Sticks and the department just authorized us to use PIT; it's being taught by my prior department.