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Originally Posted by Raiders Army
To take a slightly different take from the longish car chase, I would give the cop benefit of the doubt if the chase had been short and ended at the hospital. He wouldn't have had time to think about why they weren't stopping and where they stopped. But because the chase was pretty long, he had time to think about it.
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And as the chase gets longer, what he's thinking is "what are they running from and trying to get away from me?", not "what legitimate reason would they have for ignoring my signal?", given that probably 99.5% of the reasons people don't pull over are not legitimate. And the longer the car runs, the more likely the guy is to pull a gun when they finally do corner him.
Moates just happened to be in that .5% (my made up statistic, but I think I'm in the ballpark).