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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 845582" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The car is not sitting there "unused".</p><p> </p><p>The deputy might be off duty, but he has a pager and in an emergency he can be back "on duty" in the time it takes him to grab his weapon and hop in the car.</p><p> </p><p>This is a very <em>efficient</em> use of scarce resources when you are talking about a 2000 square mile county with less than a handful of deputies to patrol it.</p><p> </p><p>Here in Oregon we recently had a lunatic shoot a cop and drive off at high speed. The pursuit crossed thru several small towns and multiple counties, with multiple police agencies involved. An off-duty deputy (who was at home in bed) got woke up by her pager, threw her uniform jacket on <strong>over her pajamas, </strong>hopped into the patrol car in her driveway, and within 10 minutes was in position to lay spike strips across the highway which disabled the bad guys car and <em>ended</em> a potentially fatal high-speed pursuit. </p><p> </p><p>What works in the big cities doesnt work in rural areas. Period.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 845582, member: 14668"] The car is not sitting there "unused". The deputy might be off duty, but he has a pager and in an emergency he can be back "on duty" in the time it takes him to grab his weapon and hop in the car. This is a very [I]efficient[/I] use of scarce resources when you are talking about a 2000 square mile county with less than a handful of deputies to patrol it. Here in Oregon we recently had a lunatic shoot a cop and drive off at high speed. The pursuit crossed thru several small towns and multiple counties, with multiple police agencies involved. An off-duty deputy (who was at home in bed) got woke up by her pager, threw her uniform jacket on [B]over her pajamas, [/B]hopped into the patrol car in her driveway, and within 10 minutes was in position to lay spike strips across the highway which disabled the bad guys car and [I]ended[/I] a potentially fatal high-speed pursuit. What works in the big cities doesnt work in rural areas. Period. [/QUOTE]
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