SSP Pursuit Video Clip from CHiPS TV Show
 

I was wasting time today surfing on Youtube and just happened to run across a clip of this SSP pursuit from the TV show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RVda85bZe8

I never saw that one before so I thought I would post the link here and comment. Of course it's fun to watch but I cannot help commenting on the inaccuracies even though I know it's just TV and just entertainment, still, OCD compels me to point out:

1. LA1523's driver's hair is absurdly long and out of regulation. Had I showed up for work like that I would have been sent home.
2. Shortly after the pursuit starts the motors show up. Of course they had to because they are the heroes, but 4 motors? Lol NO way. And then all four motors pass the SSP and take over as primary units...or I guess co-primaries? Lol again. In reality, a motor may start a pursuit, but as soon as a patrol car joins, it becomes primary and the motor drops back into secondary. If an air until is available it becomes primary and all vehicles become secondary.
3. NO way would I or anyone I know ever have driven at those speeds and in that manner through a residential area, pursuit or not. You put it out on the radio, updating, and hope someone on the outside is in position to take over. And I am talking about even 47 years ago. A rolling stolen arrest is simply not worth the liability then or now.

These director's errors, or should I say "artistic license" are almost as dumb-looking to me as the episode where one of the heroes' young cousins was a Cadet at the Academy and got involved in a pursuit, on the public highways, driving a marked CHP motor (in his Cadet uniform). That was the ultimate inanity and was one of the many reasons why, when people asked me if that show was realistic, I would just laugh. Shows like that, while popular, are where the public gets so much misinformation.