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Originally Posted by krynski
Yeah, maybe you can de-escalate for hours, but I'm not convinced you are going to arrive at a different outcome. Perhaps the best way to deal with this situation is for the officer to go back to his cruiser and radio in for a larger response, but one could argue that it would be escalation at that point?
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How can you possible say that? You wait two minutes, get another cop car to block in the vehicle, and it can't flee - you changed the outcome. That (and an officer involved shooting) is the outcome you're trying to prevent. Again public safety should be top priority, that means doing everything to ensure he doesn't flee and hit someone.
Even if he wants to do a 50 point turn to get around the cops blocking him in, that's when breaking the window might actually allow you to stop him from fleeing. Not when all he has to do is put his foot on the gas.
This isn't about stopping his window from being smashed, I don't give one #### about that, it's about him not speeding away and crashing into an innocent person. Imagine if your loved one was driven over by the criminal, all because some cop couldn't wait another two minutes instead going into an emotional angry tantrum like a 2 year old.
Again, what actually happens in two more minutes is that the guy calls his lawyer and his lawyer tells him to get the #### out of the car. Meanwhile another officer is there to block in the car, provide assistance to the responding officer, and potentially possibly provides some assurance that this isn't a single dirty officer acting outside of the force if that's what the driver actually believes. There is no harm in waiting, keeping his emotions cool, but we do know there was huge potential for harm by escalating it.