Fletcher said officers decide to use the stop sticks based on the information they have at the time of the stop. In this case, he says the non-registered vehicle, dark tint and driver who appeared ...

But now, officials are starting to ask whether the risks of using them outweigh the perils of police chases. The Indiana State Police calls stop sticks “effective tools,” but they are not ...

Police later got reports of the suspect using the vehicle to try to run others ... Officers then deployed stop sticks and used a Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) maneuver to stop the suspect ...

Police primarily use two types of spikes. Stop Sticks, from Stop Tech Ltd., are a strip of spikes encased in plastic. Officers toss them onto the roadway in an effort to flatten tires on a ...