The homies pursued and had a successful PIT on a stolen car. Who was in the stolen vehicle? Wanted person with a murder warrant and another wanted person with an aggravated robbery warrant. People don’t run to just run.
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"Why don't you just write down their license plate and get them later?"
“It’s only a stolen vehicle. We have car insurance for a reason”
"Why doesn't the government do anything about how expensive car insurance is!?"
"Why don't you just shoot the gun out of thier hands?!"
Sounds just like our OPs manual
"FLOCK and plate readers are a violation of my rights. Patrol officers shouldn't have access to databases either because all they'll do is just stalk people."
That one really gets my goat. The idea of false or stolen plates completely escapes them.
Fun fact: my last pursuit was of a stolen vehicle that had its plates switched.
We chased a stolen car just this weekend (pretty slow speeds though). Guy ran on foot and was caught.
The car owner was so happy to get it back, and undamaged too (we caught it like an hour after the theft).
We recovered your vehicle. You can collect the various pieces from the tow yard.
GSP: “We recovered your vehicle, it’s in orbit.”
Or on fire.
Not only do people want their vehicles recovered but they also don’t want police to pursue them. Make it make sense.
They are not the same people.
If their vehicle gets stolen they will wish the thieves the very worst punishment, and they want everything possible done to secure the car’s return.
People who don’t want police chases haven’t had their car stolen. Yet.
I want police chases, and I've never had my car stolen. Where do I fit in
...that depends. You own a Kia you park in your driveway by any chance?
Nope. I own a worn old bmw
But I also imagine that they don’t want their property getting PITed or otherwise fucked up (which has a tendency to happen in chases.)
If my vehicle gets stolen I hope it gets pitted into and wraps around a tree. Insurance will cover it, and nothing of value will be lost with the thief becoming one with machine
My favorite conversation I had at my new agency was with a victim who had their vehicle stolen. I literally see it leaving their neighborhood as I’m coming in because I was close by. I flip around and light it up. It takes off. Our pursuit policy is absolutely 0 for non-violent property crimes so I have to turn my lights off and turn around. I go back to the victim and explain they ran and we can’t pursue it so I’ll take a report and we might find it sometime but that is not a guarantee. They were understandably upset so I told them to call and complain to the chief and city council because there was nothing more I could do according to our policy.
I want you to chase someone who steals my car. But I don’t want it back.
It’s a 2011 Fusion with 220k miles on it. Y’all would be doing me a favor if you pitted it after it got stolen.
I'm not sure I would want my vehicle back since it already now has a salvaged title.
My favorite is "I just want my car back, I don't want them to go to jail".
We can't PIT even if I could get permission to chase for just a stolen car.
Same. And we have to give them an avenue to escape.
If you accidentally block someone in, you have to move your car before you do anything.
Wow, What’s the logic in allowing the avenue for escape?
So you don't "force" a deadly force situation.
Basically if they don't have an avenue to escape, then in order to escape they'll have to ram police out of the way. This is and would justify deadly force, but because this is clown world, it would be the cops' fault and an unjust shooting.
What in the Calvinball...
You need to work somewhere else lol
Same, gotta love the PNW and inability to hold criminals accountable for anything but being "victims."
Looks like them Duke boys are at it again
Good catch.
But we all know that plenty of stolen cars are just 15 year old kids with no violent priors who are just driving around breaking into cars. The problem is that we have no way to tell which is which until we chase em.
Glad we got the bad guys and no one was hurt though.
Yeah we should definitely be chasing them to.
The reason they're stealing cars is because nothing happens to them.
And the reason they don't have priors is because they aren't being chased.
Truth. Last year I chase a stolen car. It crashed. Suspect was 15 and arrested after a foot chase. It was the 15th car he had stolen in 9 months. He was out of JDC after three days. He ended up stealing 20 Kias in 2025. Little shit head is out of JDC with a warrant for cutting off his ankle monitor.
But you know, if they hold him it's the system's fault for turning him into a career criminal lol.
Nothing happens to them after they get caught either so…..
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So they would rather go into the clink instead of a citation
Smart move
All but three ended with them crashing their car too. Luckily most were on the midnight shift so little to no traffic.
Admin just revised chase policy and gives us more ability to chase. Today deputies chased a stolen car with a dude that had all kinds of warrants and possibly a felon in possession of a gun. When they called my call sign to go find him after deputies lost him, I about passed out from excitement.
But have You considered... that's liTerAlLY FaSciSm!?
People who has never done this job for a living are the ones who whine the loudest.
My car was totaled a few months ago. Police were pursuing a stolen vehicle in heavy traffic through a construction zone and the individual fleeing rear ended me and totaled my car as well as the stolen one.
Thankfully I wasn’t hurt or anything. Not super relevant to your post but just wanted to post my anecdotal viewpoint. I wish they didnt pursue that stolen car haha.
Side note, i asked the pursuing police department for dash cam footage of the incident and they stated their vehicles do not have dash cams. Which seems absolutely insane to me in the year of our lord 2025.
Edit: seems like not having dash cams is pretty standard for police departments nowadays. It is kind of surprising but i suppose it makes sense with the implementation of body cameras.
“I wish they didnt pursue that stolen car haha.”
Another way to look at it is “I wish that person didn’t run in the stolen vehicle and crash into my car.”
This shifting of blame for consequences of criminals actions to the police is crazy. If the cops were driving code 3 to something and hit your car, blame them. Otherwise blame the asshat that committed multiple felonies not the people holding them accountable for it.
Im obviously not strictly blaming the police. Ultimately I hold the lady fleeing responsible but I do believe in my situation the police should not have been pursuing like they were.
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Gotcha. I suppose that makes sense.
None of cars have had dash cams for 10 years now. I work for major city.
We don’t have dash cameras in our cruisers.
Does Franklin PD get zero action to where this one incident is all over their social media and reposted by everyone? Wow big whoop, good job buddy.
No. Franklin PD does the stuff consistently.