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heard the faintest pulses of a siren. Whatever it was, it
weakened your resolve, and you slowed down. You have no
such luxury here. And while this is fresh for you, this is,
to many of the people pursuing you, another day another
dollar. They've trained for this in training scenarios and
have been involved in pursuits in the field. They run code
multiple times a week. even if one of your pursuers was
a rookie who got eaten up by the stress, there will be a
dozen vets to take his place.
• Cognizance. Unless you've lived around and driven on
your path of flight for decades, I can almost guarantee you
do not know it as well as your pursuers. I drove a hundred
miles a night, four nights a week, on the same few dozen
streets in my beat. I knew every pothole and curbstone,
every back alley and shortcut. Plus, supplementing my
knowledge was dispatch, who had a real time, God's eye
view of the situation, and who could foreshadow upcoming
turns based on officers' GPS and current road conditions.
• Conveyances. Your chosen city of flight may have the rattiest
squad cars in the country, but they have the distinct
benefit of redundancy. Your escape vehicle is precious, because
there is only one. nuke a tire from hitting spikes or
a pothole, and you're roasted. If a patrol car has a blowout,
that unit will fall out and be replaced by another. If you
think your car can outrun and outlast what will effectively
be an infinite number of responding unit vehicles (when
you account for interagency involvement), have at it; otherwise,
you may need to rethink your day.
• Control. What is your flight plan — are you going to rely
on top end speed on the open highway? or are you going
to try to lose responding officers in an intricate series of
turns? You've got a tall order ahead either way.
• First, if you've got something in your hands that can outperform
Crown Victoria and Charger interceptors on the
interstate, you're going to be relatively easy to spot — you
won't be doing this in a stock Toyota. Second, you've got
Little Brother to worry about — if you wax someone's
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