Since 2016 at least 30 people have died, and hundreds have been injured — including some officers — when police used the maneuver to end pursuits, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.
The total number of people who have been killed or injured as a result of the maneuver is unknown because the nation’s more than 18,000 police departments are not required by the federal government to keep track. Shortly after dawn on April 10, Battenfield, in a Dodge Ram, failed to stop at a traffic signal and then began to flee when a U.S. Forest Service officer attempted to stop him. Arkansas State Trooper Michael Shawn Ellis picked up the pursuit. Dashboard-camera video from the trooper’s car captured Battenfield as he swerved into the path of oncoming traffic. “Get this car stopped as soon as there’s an opening,” a supervisor told Ellis over the radio.
When performed at slower speeds — generally 35 to 45 mph — the maneuver can be safe and effective to end pursuits, experts said. “We recognize that over that speed, the dynamic nature and the physics of an engagement can result in a vehicle that becomes a risk to the public, the occupants and the officers,” Moore said.First, the officer pulls alongside the fleeing vehicle and matches its speed.
At greater speeds, the maneuver has launched cars into traffic and trees, and in one case killed a woman in Tift County, Ga., as she stood in her front yard. Karen M. Blum, a law professor at Suffolk University Law School, studied the tactic for the National Police Accountability Project, which filed a brief in a Supreme Court case brought by a man who was paralyzed in 2001 during an attempted PIT by a Georgia police officer.
As a police helicopter and patrol cars followed the fleeing SUV, police searched for Reese — unaware that he was in the back of the SUV, according to police reports. Hall and two deputies suffered serious injuries. The deputies were awarded Purple Heart medals, and Hall was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. The case is pending. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office declined to comment on the crash or the use of the maneuver, citing an ongoing investigation into the crimes.
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