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Folks, as someone as who as been in few high speed pursuits, I would like to share some of the insights of such.

Your heartrate is well above two hundred beats during these things, and it’s not a gradual increase. It’s one second you are at your sitting heart rate and then you are at sprinting rate.

You become enraged because this guy is fleeing a crime that he just committed and putting you and every other person on the road at deadly risk. Just to flee responsibility for something he did.

Pursuits almost always end in a wreck, and adrenaline dump gives the suspect the ability to climb out of a vehicle crash that would have killed a normal person. They always proceed to run, leap fences, sometimes fight, etc, with amazing strength and endurance. But they very rarely give up, and many times when they do get cornered in the car and cannot escape, the reach for something in an apparent attempt to intimidate the officers into backing off.

It never works and they die in a hail of bullets.

Now, ask yourselves how well you would fare with accuracy after an extended vehicle pursuit, where your emotions are white hot, your heart rate is above 220 bpm, and you had to run after a suspect after he bailed?

Your rounds would be all over the place too.


27 posted on 04/13/2012 10:19:30 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (A Bounty on Zimmerman, Can Be A Bounty On ANYONE. No NBPP Mob Justice!)
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To: Molon Labbie
Folks, as someone as who as been in few high speed pursuits, I would like to share some of the insights of such.

It sounds like you should stop running from police and be thankful the police are such bad shops.

PS - Training is suppose to significantly reduce the effect you describe. Your suggestion supports an argument that police can't be trusted to act reasonably or professionally in high stress situations.

42 posted on 04/13/2012 10:37:18 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (With regards to the GOP: I am prodisestablishmentarianistic!)
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Driving back to college one day I heard a notice on the radio that the Indianapolis cops were in pursuit of some guys fleeing south on Madison Avenue ~ so watch out because shots were being fired.

There I was on Indiana 37, one of the routes that road merged into at several points so I decided to pull over behind some trees along the highway until this was over. Just then I saw them coming in my rear view mirror ~ made it behind the trees just in time ~ and they were shooting at each other!

While I crawled down as deep as I could get in the compartment in front of the seats ~ talk about heart beats and adrenalin ~ I was still jumped up the next day!

51 posted on 04/13/2012 10:53:56 AM PDT by muawiyah
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