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Hot Pursuit
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Police officers will engage in high speed pursuits involving dozens of patrol cars for the flimsiest of reasons. No TV police force has a "Do not pursue" policy for minor crimes. Officers involved in the chase are usually Lemming Cops and are poor drivers who crash very easily. Sometimes the police might use more advanced tactics like spike strips and roadblocks, but these rarely are successful in fiction, either against the heroes or the villains. The name comes from an old legal principle that law enforcement from one jurisdiction can work within another if they are in active pursuit of a fleeing suspect, and can arrest said suspect on private property without a warrant. In Real Life, people who flee from police when facing a minor moving violation have often committed other crimes, evidence of which will be found when they are stopped. A person who flees police is likely to either be driving on a suspended license, be driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, have warrants out for their arrest, or have drugs, illegal weapons, dead bodies, and/or kidnapped children in the vehicle. Thus, there is some Truth in Television, but not to the degree usually shown. Subtrope of Chase Scene. |
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In episode 8 of K, the supernatural police force Scepter 4 deploys all of its helicopters to apprehend the Silver King from his airship. Doumyouji, a member of the top squad, remarks that it seems like a lot. It's justified, though - the Silver King is the most powerful of the seven Kings in that system, and he's been acting peculiar recently... since the night of the incident they're investigating, actually. | |
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Road Rash 64 has cops going hog-wild all over the game world's island simply for a motorcycle race. If the ending animation is done just right, cop cars will slam into the drivers, sending them flying. Murder for speed. | |
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The Hire: This happens to the Driver when he goes tearing across town in his BMW sports car, trying to find a woman locked in the trunk of a car before high tide comes in. The cops don't know he's on a rescue mission, and instead assume that he has stolen the car. Needless to say, they are nowhere near his level and don't appear to cause any significant delay to his rescue. | |
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Roscoe P. Coltrane from The Dukes of Hazzard would gleefully shout over his CB that he was in "Hot Puuuur-Suit!" of the Duke boys, frequently followed by him driving off a cliff or into a lake when he couldn't match the Dukes' driving ability. | |
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In The Fifth Elephant, he technically leads a pursuit across national borders by pursuing the suspect (the mad werewolf Wolfgang von Ãœberwald) out of the Ankh-Morpork embassy in the town of Bonk. The local watch recognise he has the right and stands back. | |
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"Police Car Frenzy" in Pro Pinball: Big Race USA. | |
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Another non-car incident occurs towards the latter third of Assassin's Creed. Granted, at this point your character has killed half a dozen important members of society and countless soldiers and guards and they're on the lookout for funny behavior in a white hood, but even so much as knocking someone over or climbing a wall will cause Altair to have half the city watch chasing him. Even before that point, the guards will attack him for the crime of taking his horse above a walk (When did speed limits get imposed in the 12th Century?) | |
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In both the Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row series, the police will chase you after a simple fender bender. If the chase goes on long enough (and enough officers get killed trying to chase you), SWAT teams, helicopters, soldiers and eventually tanks will be called in to take you down. Though to be fair, after the player has killed multiple police officers and racked up thousands of dollars in property damage, they have some valid reasons to call in the tanks and jets. Ironically the police will up your wanted level when they kill themselves in pursuit of you — apparently the GTA universe has some harsh felony murder laws. And of course the cops have absolutely no regard for innocent bystanders. Tanks, helicopters, troop trucks and jet fighters in the middle of an urban area - "Well, he dinged my fender!" | |
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Downplayed when the title character of Melody drag races (using Arnold’s car) with a couple of guys. Melody and Sophia end up getting chased by the cops, but the police apparently end up following the guys instead, so Melody gets off the hook. Apparently, the police never ran the plate for Arnold’s car. | |
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In Snuff, he claims the same right to investigate crime in the disputed Shires region; technically speaking, the Watch even pursue the criminals into Quirm and faraway Howondaland to make arrests. | |
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Seen in the Smokey and the Bandit movies which are actually made of little more than long pursuits. Indeed, Sheriff Buford T. Justice seems to have the impression that declaring he's doing this gives him free reign to pursue the Bandit all over the United States without interruption from other law enforcement agencies. | |
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Exaggerated in the climax of Boogie, where the titular, erm, Anti-Hero, must race to a courthouse within 5 minutes. After speeding at over 200 miles an hour, this leads to what seems to be a few hundred cop cars flooding the streets in pursuit, accompanied by five or so police choppers. For real, the scene of cop cars flooding the streets lasts for maybe fifteen seconds onscreen. | |
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The Chase (1994) is basically made of one long Hot Pursuit with half a dozen police cruisers always keeping the same distance to the getaway car. | |
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Due South featured a car chase in the episode Heaven And Earth, notable for having highly competent driving on the part of all of the cops involved, along with a bitchin awesome accompanying song. And how did the chase start? An All Points Bulletin got put out with a vague description of the suspect being in a particular area. Two cops saw a guy walking down the street looking shifty, and tapped the siren to get his attention. Guy takes off running, and the cops take off driving backwards after him, before pulling a hairpin turn to get going the right direction. | |
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BoBoiBoy: The Movie: BoBoiBoy aids the police after noticing their high-speed chase of the 3 Robs, (known here as "The Serial Laundromat Robbers"). When they catch them, the truck is found to contain 15 bags of laundry, 3 clothing irons and a flowery bedsheet. | |
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C. W. McCall: Played for laughs in "Four Wheel Drive", in which a lone driver going 67 miles per hour catches the attention of a cop, who proceeds to chase him through a valley where the Nishnabotna River flows. The cop's car ends up "mired in fourteen feet of mud", so he calls ahead... and twenty-five more cops come to back him up, finally catching the driver. | |
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Parodied again in Taxi 2. Insults about sexual tastes directed to some cops cause Paris' entire police force to chase down the main characters throughout the city (with predictably destructive results). | |
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The Getaway managed to sort of justify it; occasionally you'll hear someone on a police radio mention that they've recognised the player character, who became wanted for murdering his wife (which he didn't actually do) in the opening cutscene and has been roaming the streets of London single-handedly causing enough mayhem to rival the 2011 riots. | |
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Parodied in the extreme in The Blues Brothers: Running a red light is the catalyst for the titular Brothers to be chased down by every law enforcement agency in Illinois, up to and including the National Guard. They're also chased by Illinois Nazis and a renegade country band, but for different reasons. The really serious high speed pursuit comes after their initial attempt to escape from the police gets out of hand and they cause serious property damage. It's still an example of a case where the cops would be smarter to apply a "do not pursue" policy, but the initial red light is only the start of their problems. |
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In the premiere episode of Sonic X, the police go to ridiculous lengths to catch Sonic for what, at most, could be construed as disrupting traffic. (Granted, he is also an alien creature unknown to our world, which would probably be a much more valid reason for chasing him, but this is not brought up.) And they bust out Formula 1 police cars. Parodied mercilessly in ShadyVox's abridgement of the first episode, where Sam Speed says "We're the high speed pursuit unit. Our job is to chase down anyone who commits a crime and tries to get away in an F1 racing car. And don't you dare say it doesn't happen. Because it totally does!" | |
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The GTA cops are lenient compared to those in Driver, who will pursue you to the end for traffic offenses that GTA's police will ignore. Driver cops have even been known to go after the player when another car breaks the law. | |
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Non-automobile variation in Aladdin: the guards chasing after the titular hero for stealing a loaf of bread. The title character lampshades it in the comment at the top of the page Which is of course a reference to Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean's lifelong chase with Inspector Javert begins with the theft of a loaf of bread. Shouted out in The Animated Series when a thief is being pursued by both the guards and Aladdin himself. The scene is an almost shot-for-shot remake of the one from the movie (before the singing), only the thief in question is nowhere near as good as Aladdin is, and stole a huge diamond ("All this for a diamond?"). |
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Decomposing Angel plays this straight, with competent driving all around. It avoids the Lemming Cops trope, but still manages to be very destructive. | |
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Happens often in Diabolik whenever the police spots the Villain Protagonist. For once the police is actually competent, it's just that Diabolik is an Ace Pilot with a tricked-out Jaguar E-type and all sorts of traps and gadgets waiting to be used on his car and the roads of Clerville, so they're still outclassed. In an interesting case, the police tends to avert the trope with other criminals to avoid the risks of this trope. Diabolik is an exception because he's a repeat murderer with an enormous bodycount that includes cops (in and out chases), has stolen an enormous amount of money and valuables in his many heists, and has a death sentence waiting for him to be caught and kept arrested long enough for the death warranty to be signed and the guillotine being prepared, he's rightly deemed dangerous enough that they take the risk. | |
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WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: Mona's chapter revolves around her needing to reach her workplace in time. Unfortunately, due to having to stop in order to let some school children cross a street slowly, Mona realizes that she won't make it if she drives under the speed limit, so she drives faster and a police unit detects her, thus beginning a chase that complicates when more units join. Some buddy animals accompanying Mona attempt to throw stuff to the units to derail them, and winning the microgames symbolizes their success in doing so. | |
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Friends: During their Secret Relationship Chandler and Monica attempt to spend a weekend at a hotel together. Chandler immediately gets distracted when he discovers the news has coverage of the police pursuing a man attempting to flee to Canada. Apparently the chase doesn't end well, Chandler tells Monica not to speak ill of the dead when she calls the driver an idiot for trying to flee with only half a tank of gas. | |
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Need for Speed is the most obvious example in all Blood Sport video games, with a sub-series of NFS games called Hot Pursuit that allows players to play on either side of the law. Those games (especially Hot Pursuit 2010 and Rivals) also give those vehicles a lot of weapons to work with; roadblocks, spike strips, helicopters, EMPs, jammers, nitrous, etc. It's actually justified in Heat through a combination of the entire police force of Palm City being Rabid Cops and the cops selling impounded sports cars on the black market for piles of cash. | |
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