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YES!!!!! After I had arrested an intoxicated driver, handcuffed him, put him in the backseat, I stood outside of my patrol car awaiting the arrival of a tow truck. As I was filling out the paperwork, I realized that I had left my vehicle inventory book inside of my car. When I opened the car door, I was assaulted…**Let me set the scene: it was in the wee hours of a bitterly cold night (10°) and the wind was blowing between 5–10 m.p.h. I had the inside temperature and fan set on their highest setting so that you could almost bake a cake. In addition, I was born with a super sensitive sense of smell (whenever I approached a vehicle that I had pulled over for a violation, I was able to detect the odor of an alcoholic beverage and/or marijuana BEFORE the window was lowered).…by the STENCH of both urine and feces. The man was so drunk that he lost control of his excrement system. After I stopped gagging, I rolled down both front windows, retrieved my vehicle inventory book, got back out of the car, and stood outside next to the car to fill out my paperwork. Suddenly, a problem developed; the ink from my pen began freezing. I had to pop the hood of my car open slightly so that the escaping heat prevented the ink from freezing so that I could complete my paperwork.After the tow truck arrived and the driver had signed the tow-in ticket and received his copy, it was time to transport the prisoner. Before I entered the car, I pulled up the faux-fur collar of my coat up so that it covered the better part of my head and, for good measure, I buttoned it in front of my face. After taking a breath of fresh air to fill my lungs, I sat behind the steering wheel, put the car in gear, then pushed the accelerator pedal to the floor.Since the windows were still lowered and the bitter cold was pouring into the car, the prisoner began complaining about being chilled. My response to him was, “You should not have **** in your pants.”At the jail, I left him in my car while I talked to the jailer about the situation. He called for two trustees; one cleaned and deodorized my back seat and the other put on rubber gloves so that he could take the prisoner by the arm and escort him, with the jailer and me right behind them, to the drunk tank. It was a 15X15-foot room devoid of any furniture or fixtures with a floor which gently sloped towards a grated drain in the center. After the prisoner was made to strip, he was cleaned off by the use of a high-pressure sprayer attached to a garden hose. After the washing, the jailer gave him a towel along with a prisoner's uniform, then the door was closed and locked. I went back on patrol in a very nice-smelling car.

I am not a police officer.However... I have a story from a relative, who was involved in the incident, relevant to the question.Robert Redford, who lives in Utah, in a house located up Provo Canyon (a rather twisty road that is fun to drive at high speed, if you can get away with it), was well known for speeding up the canyon.Mr. Redford was frequently chased, but his vehicle was quite high performance, even compared to the police interceptors operated by the Utah Highway Patrol. And so it was able to outdistance the police vehicles, rather easily, as most of the distance travelled is on an uphill grade.The UHP became rather frustrated with this, and here is what they did:They measured the distance from the bottom of the canyon to Robert Redford's driveway gate.The next time Mr. Redford headed up the canyon at high speed, a car stationed at the bottom of the canyon -- the fastest interceptor the UHP had in inventory -- gave chase.This was business as usual.And when he got to his driveway, he found another UHP vehicle waiting for him, and a third pulled in from off the shoulder of the road behind him.And then they ticketed him for his average speed up the canyon, which was well in excess of the posted limit (and though it was likely nowhere near his peak speed at some point along the drive), sufficient to give him the largest possible ticket and largest number of points on his license.The officer who gave chase at the bottom had radioed ahead, you see, and had a timestamped video record, as did the officers at the top.The moral to this story?No matter how fast your Ferrari or Lamborghini or [insert name of fast car here] ... you can't outrun Motorola.

Here are the facts.If you ignore a marked vehicle pulling you over for miles and miles (5?…) you can expect to be removed from you vehicle at gun point in a felony stop procedure. Also expect every Officer available on duty to be responding lights and siren. Expect to be put face down on the pavement by an Officer shouting commands at you. Once you’re cuffed, placed in a cage car your vehicle and your vehicle inventoried and searched to be towed….then you will have a moment to explain why you took Officers on a “slow speed pursuit” for 5 miles. They will explain to you the how the local statutes work and write you for the original citation and then book you most likely for failure to yield to an Emergency vehicle or however the local Code reads in that jurisdiction. Trust me. You will find it an unpleasant experience.If the vehicle stopping you is a vehicle that you wouldn’t expect to be pulling you over….(not a Crown Vic with less markings for working traffic but a Camaro or pickup with a pancake light in its dash or other temp light thrown on the roof)….and you REALLY think something isn’t right this is what you do.—Call 911 and explain what is happening and where. They will tell you that they have a car at that location as you describe initiating a car stop. Or 1 time in 100,000,000 they will tell you they have no car as you describe and tell you to drive to a specific location as a unit responds.When you call the Dispatcher will already know about the situation you’re calling about because the Unit stopping you will have already called in “Vehicle refusing to Yield” by the time you dial you phone and they will have been probably already directing additional units to your location.People that don’t pull over are usually very desperate individuals. Many times trying to escape custody because of what they have in the vehicle (Guns, Drugs, Contraband) or are wanted for crimes. On occasion its something as stupid as a Suspended Drivers licenses that will make people run.If you just keep driving along refusing to yield to Emergency Lights on a Police Vehicle we will assume (usually correctly) that you’re wanted, armed, dirty or some combination of the above.So to repeat….If you really really really think that it’s not the Police pulling you over, Dial 911 immediately and give your location to verify that the stop is legitimate. The odds of it not being legit are infinitesimally small but it does happen. If I, for example ever had a “undercover” car throw up a dash light and try to stop me I would just roll down my window and give the the “one finger in the air “hang on” gesture (to let the Officer know I’am acknowledging them and do intend to comply)…dial 911 and say “I have an unmarked Dodge Dart with a dash light trying to initiate a traffic stop on me on the 1200 block of Maple in Stuart. Can you verify that it’s legit?”We all know what legit Marked and “Unmarked” (meaning less paint and no high profile lights showing on the roof) Police Cars look like. I used to drive around in Civilian cars I snatched from the Impound lot when I was in Plain Clothes all the time. I never once tried to pull someone over in a 78 El Camino with a Dash light because …duh…it would look pretty sketchy. You call a Marked Car to do it for you if necessary. Just use your common sense….but never just keep on driving for 5 miles. You will be in for an unpleasant encounter if you do.