A two-part story by Fox 13 Salt Lake City.
Utah police are ramming wrong-way drivers with unproven tactics:
Since the start of 2018, Utah law enforcement has intentionally steered into 12 vehicles driving the wrong way on a Utah freeway but not fleeing from police, according to a FOX 13 News review of public records.
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[The commander of the Utah Highway Patrol ] said that a few years ago, UHP was looking for training on what troopers should do when they receive a report of someone traveling against traffic.
“We didn't identify that there was really any training out there,” he explained. “So, we did that. We actually dug in with our training division.”
UHP developed what it calls the wrong-way driver intercept technique.
(The article features lots more detail and videos)
Meet the Utah cop who has steered into 2 wrong-way drivers:
[The officer] wasn’t sure what he was doing the first time.
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“I had no training,” [the officer] said, “No idea as far as how to even go about intercepting this car.”
Where did he get the idea to collide with an oncoming car?
“On social media,” [the officer] said. “I follow quite a bit of different police pages.”
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He felt more confident the second time. “That one felt more just like muscle memory to me”
(The article includes a video interview)
