Hot Pursuit: Difference between revisions

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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]]. Not to be confused with the [[Need for Speed]] games of the same name. Or [[Furry Fandom|hot]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|fursuit]], which is something else entirely.

== [[Film]] - Animated ==

** The titular character lampshades it in the comment at the top of the page

*** Which is of course a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to ''[[Les Misérables]]'', where Jean Valjean's lifelong chase with [[Inspector Javert]] begins with the theft of a loaf of bread.

** As in the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' example below, running a red light causes the cop who pulls the Blues Brothers over to notice that they have a ''massive'' record of major and minor traffic violation, in addition to "Joliet Jake" spending three years in prison for knocking over a liquor store. 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.

*** Quite the opposite of "do not pursue", at one point early in the chase a police dispatcher calmly radios to all concerned that "the use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved."

* An [[Older Than Television]] example would be any number of old [[Charlie Chaplin]] shorts. The unfortunate tramp had a way of getting into trouble with the police over minor things, usually resulting in a hilarious chase scene.

* The ''Der Clown'' movie ''Payday'' contains five [[Chase Scene|chase scenes]], only one of which does not involve police cars, one of which leads to the spectacular destruction of more than one dozen police cars in [[Slo-Mo Big Air]], and one of which has SWAT cars chase an aircraft on a runway.

*** Even more amusing, they only chase you if you ding a cop car. You can plow into a civilian car at top speed and leave a huge dent in it, and the cops won't care. So much as tap a cop car though... In ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', they will pursue other civilians that hit their cars (opening up the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hilarious potential to shunt other cars into the cops]], only to watch ''them'' get busted when they roll dazed from the wreckage).

* ''[[Need for Speed]]: Most Wanted''. While the wanted level increases, the police not only use squad cars, but in Level 3, they use Pontiac GTO, and in Level 5, they use "Corvette C6!" And let's not talk about "[[Bonus Boss|Sgt.Cross]]", with heavily-modified Corvette C6!!! There are several destructible environments while you can laugh at when you crashed on it and see [[Lemming Cops|how the cop cars WRECKED!]] while your car doesn't.

** As of 2010, there's the new ''Hot Pursuit'', which is basically this trope entirely. With all of the [[EM Ps]], spike strips, and police helicopters being thrown around, the real good thing about this is that the players get hypercars, along with the police. Also, players, like in the previous HP games, can play as the cops. Who can drive street racers off the road [[Disproportionate Retribution|and down the cliffs]]. However, racers get a few weapons of their own.

* 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.

** An important note is that they will chase you whether you're breaking laws or not. You can adhere to the speed limit and stop at every red light, and they will still go after you.