PD/SD suggestion: Throwable stopsticks/stingers

Valkyrie · February 3, 2023

Suggestion for PD/SD.

The way we currently utilize stingers to end car pursuits is extremely dangerous and also a hazard to our “budgets.”

Having to stop and set up in the middle of a roadway to place stingers on the ground leaves us open for vehicles striking us (either on purpose or by accident) and leaves the stingers on the ground to be stolen by advantageous criminals.

If it is scriptly possible, I would like to see the option to “throw” stingers in the street.

1. The Officer or Sheriffs Deputy can be positioned on the side of the road (out of their vehicle) in a safer location and throw them, and also leaving the roadway open to regular traffic so that we aren’t clogging up pursuit lines with civilian vehicles turning around in the middle of the roadway or slowing down to avoid the LEO in the middle of the road and the spike strip.

2. They aren’t just laying in the road for an extended period of time, leaving them open to being stolen by bystanders and criminals (it takes way to long to exit your vehicle to defend them realistically.)

3. Overall, it would make for a realistic RP experience as 99% of agencies either throw strips out or set them up and pull them across the street via a string at the right time to avoid civilian vehicles being unintentionally spiked.

Just my two cents.

Edited February 3, 2023 by valkyrieundfreyja

Valkyrie · February 3, 2023

Or, as someone else just pointed out to me, change the orientation of the drop so instead of laying across someone’s feet when placed, they are placed facing outwards longways.

Requiem · February 3, 2023

Big +1. Its so unrealistic the way it works now and stopping pursuits in a safer and more strategic manner would be better for all sides.

BionickK · February 3, 2023

Huge +1 We've needed this for ages now. At the very least just make them longer to decrease deployment time if its considered too powerful to be able to use them on the side of the road.