According to our member who had a friend on scene, as soon as the UPS truck came to a stop, the robbers started shooting indiscriminately. If that is indeed the case, should the cops have just stayed in their vehicles?
If that was what the robbers were doing there would have been dead bodies strewn all along the 25 miles they covered while being chased..
Sounds really unlikely....
The cops pinned them in a corner and they attempted to shoot their way out.
There is a time to back off when obvious consequences just aren't worth it.
Let's say they back off the UPS truck once it starts heading into heavy traffic. The perps decide they need better wheels than the UPS truck. They kill the driver then kill a family in an SUV and take it over. Now we still have 2 armed thugs, willing to kill on the run.
Nobody would criticize the cops at this point right? Nobody would be calling them donut eating pussies afraid to do their jobs right? Nobody would pin the deaths of the innocents on the cops right?
You can't divert this with a string of "what if's"
Really? You don't think cops should consider the consequences of any actions or inactions prior to making decisons? That strikes me as odd.
Back yourself out to the beginning and tell me how you would manage this in a way that guaranteed no innocent lives were lost.
