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Interesting chase and 'shootout'

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I agree with Doug Giles that it is refreshing to see violent criminals stopped, but....

....is it safe/reasonable to shoot through your own windshield at the rear of a moving vehicle so far away....? I'd think the odds of success (stopping the vehicle by disabling it or severely injuring the driver, or slowing it by deflating a tire) would be very minimal, given what I'd assume would have to be a huge potential deflection of the bullet by virtue of it hitting hard glass, at an angle, shortly after leaving the muzzle. The street was busy, and there were residential buildings behind the line of fire. :?

The other thing I noticed is what I fear I'd do in a life-and-death situation - trying to seat a magazine that is backwards.... :oops:

Anyway, my extensive law enforcement background consists of watching Dirty Harry and the Longmire series, so I'm interested in what professionals would say about shooting through a windshield that close to the gun, and that far from the target.
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This "Dirty Harry Expert" thinks that was dumb as hell... :shock:
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Hey .. he stopped them.

I ain't gonna second guess the guy who got the job done.
Obviously shaken, he stayed on them, chased them down and got 'em stopped.

So it was't pretty.
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Did I miss what the bad guy had done? Depending on the crime, the Officer might have been trying everything to prevent the perpetrator from getting away. I am waiting to find out before I pass judgement.
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So it was't pretty.
It never is.
Good point.

It would still suck if your wife or kid were 'collateral damage', unless it were truly a bad-guy worth sacrificing their life to get arrested (and probably turned loose anyway :evil: ).
Did I miss what the bad guy had done? Depending on the crime, the Officer might have been trying everything to prevent the perpetrator from getting away. I am waiting to find out before I pass judgement.
Yep. Big difference between 'terrorist with a bomb' versus 'owes child support'...hopefully NOT a 'prohibition' crime (you'd think we'd have learned by now :roll: ).
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Only thing I can say is...

He obviously never watched "The Box O Truth" (or any other "windshield deflection of bullets" video) or learned that shooting at the rear of a leading vehicle is essentially pointless unless you are shooting a .308.

He also totally borked his reload.

I'm just glad he didn't die the while fumbling with his gun after opening his door.
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I believe the officer was chasing two men who had just murdered someone at a car wash.
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The guy worked with what he had, and did a heck of a job.

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There's a thread running on Facebook about this shooting with several hundred comments. It runs from "Yeah, that guy got huge balls" to "what a moron, shooting through a windshield while driving one handed in a neighborhood". I'm normally pro-LEO, but this guy acted irresponsibly and seemingly out of an uncontrolled rage...
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FWiedner wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:04 am The guy worked with what he had, and did a heck of a job.

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He had a radio and gasoline, too. :wink:
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I dont give a rat's patootie if he acted safely, reasonably, responsibly or whatever. One bad guy is dead, one in the hospital jail ward, officer goes home to his family, nobody else hurt. Good shoot as far as I'm concerned.

I am not a police officer but I DO watch "Live PD" on TV every Saturday night. :roll:
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Not a recommended course of action.
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I dont give a rat's patootie if he acted safely, reasonably, responsibly or whatever. One bad guy is dead, one in the hospital jail ward, officer goes home to his family, nobody else hurt. Good shoot as far as I'm concerned.
True, but if he did the exact SAME thing, only the bullets went a different path, and killed your ten-year-old kid, would you still be as happy...???

I know, that DIDN'T happen, but he sure took some risks of harming innocents. Since the bad guys were shooting at him and the other cop or whoever, one could argue that terminating THAT activity, even if risky, justified the risk.

One of those glad-I'm-not-a-cop situations. No really good answer.
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Shooting out through the windshield is a known technique now, and many departments train for it with old cars or damaged windshields to get people used to it. Its an effective method when used in its place. As one person that has experience with it commented "it works best if you can shoot mostly through the same hole", though thats not always possible.

Shooting through windshield glass, mostly from the outside in, is one of the bullet test parameters of modern pistol and carbine ammo. The better grade bonded ammo will hold together and not break up, and will also expand and penetrate ballistics test gell well. The m193 and 855 dont do very well on windshields, as many seem to assume for whatever reason.

Good discussion of the event, and another one on vid with another suspect shjooting at the officer behind him, he returns fire with his carbine through the windshield.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php ... Windshield

and here, starting with post No 1119

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The problem is not so much that the bullet will break up (which they can) but that the POA/POI is radically altered by the slope of the barrier (glass).

When coupled with the fact that any bullet that was on a "correct" trajectory would also have to pass through the entire length of a full size SUV before having an infinitesimal chance of hitting the driver or gunnner?...

Meh.

Tactics and ballistics are apparently not a part of training.

Then, couple that with a HK reload?

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I wouldn't criticize his reloading technique all that much. You don't know how much adrenaline affects your motor skills until you've experienced that particular "rush". Mag holders sometimes place magazines so that the toe of the mag points in two different directions... IMHO, they might look "cool", but... if you don't practice with that setup a LOT, that mag swap might just be result for most folks. I also noted that he'd just swapped gun hands... I wonder how often that'd been practiced in a stress situation?
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his ears must still be ringing from firing that much inside the patrol car
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BlaineG wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:00 pm
FWiedner wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:04 am The guy worked with what he had, and did a heck of a job.

JMO

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He had a radio and gasoline, too. :wink:
I'll note that he used his radio and his gasoline pretty freely and the bad guy didn't slow down a bit.

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FWiedner wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:01 pm
BlaineG wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:00 pm
FWiedner wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:04 am The guy worked with what he had, and did a heck of a job.

JMO

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He had a radio and gasoline, too. :wink:
I'll note that he used his radio and his gasoline pretty freely and the bad guy didn't slow down a bit.

:lol:
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I guess it's contagious..... :|

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That last one was just unfortunate. Playing armchair quarterback to it is difficult. I do hope that the person who was shooting at the cops is found guilty of contributing to the death of the victim, and that he never sees the outside of a prison again.
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Are LEOs in his jurisdiction permitted to be on active duty while wearing a hearing aid?
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Naphtali wrote: Fri Jul 27, 2018 3:03 pm Are LEOs in his jurisdiction permitted to be on active duty while wearing a hearing aid?
I'm guessing an earwig for the radio.
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