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Originally Posted by krynski
You’re right, it should be mandatory that everyone carries a magic lamp to summon a genie to make another service vehicle appear in front of potential perps seconds after things start to escalate when they refuse to turn off their vehicles or step out of them.
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"After things start to escalate" are the key words here. It was the officer who was escalating things.
If he simply walked up to the vehicle and it drove away, fair enough, nothing the officer could do.
If he was talking to the driver calmly while waiting for backup and it drive away, fair enough, nothing the officer could do.
But he escalated it by going into an emotional angry response and threatening the driver. He did this before the vehicle was blocked in. That's the problem. Patience. If it doesn't de-escalate to the point of the driver willingly leaving the car, at least he isn't a danger to public when they do force him out because he can no longer flee. It's the danger to public that, again, could be almost eliminated by a little bit of patience. Instead he says he'll break down the window, which of course does exactly what we expect it to do, causing the driver to flee.
Its funny how literally every de-escalating technique taught starts with patience but apparently that's just too much to ask for from our police.
There was no reason to press the issue, it's what all those links I posted say, its what all the cops training officers what to do will tell you, have some patience.