Posted: 8/30/2007 10:19:58 PM EDT
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Anyone missing? http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/GPG0101/70830114/1978 2 guns, 3 knives found after high-speed chase By Mike Hoeft [email protected] Police used an advanced driving technique called the PIT maneuver — short for pursuit intervention technique — to safely end a high-speed chase that stretched over 70 miles and parts of three Northeastern Wisconsin counties on Wednesday morning. After the driver’s 2006 GMC Sierra pickup truck came to rest in a median of U.S. 41 south of Oconto, police found a loaded 9 mm handgun in a case under the man’s seat, an unloaded AR-15 rifle in the back seat and three knives within his reach. The 46-year-old Sun Prairie man smelled of alcohol when he was arrested, police said. “It turned out good in this one,” Wisconsin State Patrol Lt. Nick Scorcio said of the PIT maneuver. “It’s a form of ramming used to knock the vehicle into a spin. It’s something our officers are trained to use when other means fail or when risks are outweighed by continuing the chase.” A state trooper pulled his front bumper alongside the fleeing vehicle’s rear wheels and turned sharply. The maneuver sent the pickup spinning to a stop in the median at Krueger Quarry Road. “We typically wait for lower speeds to use it,” Scorcio said, “but in this case, the suspect was approaching a populated area and operating on deflated tires. The trooper used the technique and it worked.” Police said the front tires were gone, with just rubber threads showing. The chase started before 7 a.m., after Door County officers saw him speeding on Wisconsin 57 south of Sturgeon Bay. The man drove southwest on Wisconsin 57, where Brown County officers clocked him at 100 mph as he neared the Interstate 43 interchange on Green Bay’s northeast side. The man then headed west on I-43, then north on U.S. 41/141, and State Patrol officers joined Brown County officers in the pursuit. Police put stop sticks in the road at Lineville Road, blowing out at least one tire on the man’s truck. Stop sticks also were put in the road at Brown Road, on the Brown-Oconto county line, and the rest of the tires were blown out. Even so, the man continued north on U.S. 41/141, then northeast on 41, traveling on the rims at up to 70 mph. In Oconto County, officers from Oconto and Oconto Falls joined the State Patrol in the pursuit. After the state trooper’s maneuver, the driver was taken into custody at 7:31 a.m. Police said the man refused to get out of the truck and had to be pulled to the ground and handcuffed. The man said he had been drinking the night before and was taking heart medication. |
That's funny shit. They don't say " we rammed his ass off the road". No...gotta make it sound all high tech and scientific. lol.... Next it'll be "The suspect threatened our lives, so we administered a high velocity plumbic injection to his intercranial region." 
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Actually the PIT manuver is a scientific manuver. It is very safe if done correctly and minimal damage is done to either vehicle. Ramming someone off the road is not safe nor is it cheap in terms of repairs to police property (which tax payers have to pay to get fixed) and you take a very real chance of someone (either perp or officer) getting killed or seriusly hurt. Sounds to me like this is a good stop/ending. The guy was (probably) driving drunk with loaded firearms and several knives. The officers tried stop sticks before taking a chance of damaging/killing any persons/property. The perp was approaching a populated area on blown tires. Do you want your wife to get hit by this person when they cannot stop in time because of blown out tires and he is too drunk/stupid to stop but wants to drive on 4 blown tires? Not all police are JBT's no matter what you might read to the contrary in GD. 
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