NYPD officials no longer think a policy that leans toward engaging in as few pursuits as possible is viable, and they re trying a new approach of trapping suspects by blocking.
It’s a tactic New York City police officers are using more often in cases of violent criminal suspects fleeing in motor vehicles — blocking traffic in the suspects’ likely escape path in hope of forcing them to surrender. But in a case June 30, alleged car thief William Pichardo, 32, wasn’t of a mind to let police impede his flight. He hit the gas, crashed through a line of police vehicles .
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