Air Chase

This still doesn't seem like a good idea:

• Two men are sitting in the Cook County jail, accused of carjacking an Uber Eats driver near Goose Island. And they can thank one of Chicago’s most effective apprehension partnerships: a CPD helicopter and Illinois State Police ground units.

  Prosecutors said the 25-year-old delivery driver was targeted while sitting in his 2016 Toyota sedan in the 800 block of West Blackhawk around 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, December 8.

  According to a Chicago police report, Tayvon Andrews and David Brantley, both 18 years old, approached the car and ordered the driver out while Andrews was displaying a gun. The victim complied, and the hijackers, Brantley behind the wheel and Andrews in the passenger seat, sped away.

  It wasn’t long before CPD’s helicopter located the freshly stolen Toyota. Joined by two ISP troopers, the air and ground team pursued the hijackers until the Toyota crashed at 87th and State streets around 9:45 p.m., the police report said. The troopers arrested Andrews and Brantley at the scene and handed them over to CPD.

They still crashed, all while the helicopter was tracking/chasing them. 

And you can bet that ISP didn't just happen to be in the neighborhood - we're forbidden by General Order to parallel pursue, but is ISP? And what if ISP wrecked into an innocent passerby? The payout would come from Illinois taxpayers instead of Chicago, at least at ground level. We don't know if the chopper crew has been sued for anything like this yet, but give a lawyer a chance and they'll sue their own grandmothers.