I kind of got to appreciate how Byrd even drove in the parking lot, other two cops were heavy on gas, and brakes, and turning, and Byrd was just you fellas go ahead, I'm going this way and casually doing muh thang
Police don't like to talk about it, because knowing the tactic potentially means beating the tactic, but there is actually coordination to the madness. Even if it sometimes feels like it, not all units working the chase are just following the vehicle. There are units preparing stingers, units running "cleanup" (i.e. searching items reported thrown from the vehicle or attending to collisions on the way) and units anticipating the suspects movements and blocking them in. Cops, like wolves, hunt in packs - the goal is to disorient and hussle the fleeing driver until he is exhausted or makes a mistake. That being said, it looked like the trio of troopers were called out specifically for that chase by the local PD, so most likely Trooper Byrd when running to the squad car said something along the lines of "you guys tag on, imma run interference" to his buddies - and then he was just lucky that he zigged when the suspect zagged.
True, but to be fair if you’re patrolling an area year after year you have to have the knowledge of all the streets and highways/freeways. Most good experienced cops do this. You cannot rely upon GPS - it’s a distraction. I’m a retired LEO.
Better yet, a silhouette of a car for every vehicle he's pitted, like fighter pilots did in World War Two when they shot down an enemy plane. Byrd would probably be a triple Ace by now.
@ Alvaro Q True..... Although multiple people got hurt because this POS Chump wrecked out their cars who prob dont have enough insurance to cover for damages etc.
I have always been super impressed with Trooper Byrd's skills.....especially with the ability he has to track down the pursuit and get right on top of the action!! Someone needs to do a new rendition of the Ghostbusters song for police pursuits in Arkansas, as we all know the answer to "Who you gonna call?".
Trooper Byrd knows the area really really well, he was navigating those surface streets with such skill and accuracy for where the pursuit was and where it was heading. You can run, but you can never hide from a law enforcement officer who knows their area!
This is why even when you are a criminal that you keep your eyes on the road and not the rearview mirror. Guy was watching for the next pit attempt and didn't even see the that road had moved. Didn't even hit the brakes until he was already hitting the first car.
At the end of the video, the bush, the street, and the parked car sign sacrifice themselves to end this chase. Great job by the officers to lead the driver to these amazing heroes.
These guys drive so darn fast! 135, or 140 mph and somehow they don't crash or wipe out other traffic! Awesome! BTW, Officer Byrd did not PIT this guy, the guy crashed. His big mistake was picking some dinky little backstreet to try to flee. That's the disadvantage every runaway baddie has to face. You have to GPS and plan your route. Byrd is like a predator, a raptor; he just extends his claws. You feel it in the way he drives!
"disadvantage every runaway baddie has to face. You have to GPS and plan your route" Sound advice for the next degenerate that decides to flee from police.
Actually from most of these videos, unless you have a supercar or V8 muscle car, most of the escapes seem to happen on residential roads because the suspect drives more recklessly than the troopers are willing to. Byrd is just hard to shake.
@@KevinSun242 You just need to know about what the police cars themselves are equipped with. The fastest police cars are the Ford Taurus Police Interceptor, which makes up to 365hp, and the Dodge Charger that makes up to 375hp. Most police cars are equipped with less powerful engines so the horsepower numbers above are a worst case scenario. The top speed is gonna be ~160-170mph for these cars. You need a fast car to outrun the cops on a simple road like the interstate, but hell even Ford Explorers are being equipped with 400hp these days. Give it another 10 years and minivans will be faster than the current fleet of cop cars.
Wow, good on the Byrd Man for laying off with the pit when there were parked cars close by! When I saw the thumbnail, I thought he'd pitted him into those cars, and was disappointed. Give respect, earn respect.
*The Byrd Byrd Byrd, the Byrd is the word* ! Imagine being the owner of that totaled car that they hit. "WTF happened to my car?!? I have to go to work in the morning!"
❤❤❤😂😂😂 You can just hear him waiting for the gate “Dang,Dang,Dang,”…Byrd, think’s like a runner, so he can anticipate their moves !!! He got the charger when no one got close enough to get the tag !!!
Not sure if they already release footage of body cams but the release of the car cams is related to transparency and at this time it appears they are one of the few state agencies who are doing this. Cams not really much for the DAs as their cases are built on many other pieces of evidence beyond a question of doubt for a jury. I know that when it comes to releasing body cam footage audit the audit is one of the few channels who will find and release that information but it is solely related to transparency at the legal level. ASP gets an A+ for the transparency. They are not releasing these videos to showboat as it is a taxpayer funded state agency and they probably appreciate any constructive criticism.
@@mjohnson9563 I appreciate that anything spoken by anyone in the car would likely be inadmissible as evidence before a caution is delivered, but continuing the visual record of activity after the pursuit is terminated might sometimes have merit, even if to protect officers from allegations of undue heavy handedness during the arrest. And let's be entirely honest, we all want to see these fools with their faces in the weeds, don't we ? Regards
Oh trust me...ASP has a bunch of 'Byrds' on their force...I think each one of them have attributes that are especially unique to them and just as badass as Byrd...not saying Byrd is not worthy of all his praise just saying they have tons more that deserve as much praise themselves!! That whole force is the best of the BEST in this country imo
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Its amazing how calm Trooper Byrd is during those pursuits, even when doing PITs, you can see how precise he is, so that no other cars are damaged. Amazing. Wish you all the best Sir.
I'm not a huge fan of how many PITs ASP does, but I gotta give huge respect to Byrd here for all the PIT opportunities he passed up that would have wrecked innocent peoples vehicles or possibly damaged their homes. For a lot of people something like that would be utterly devastating. Well done. Too bad this POS didn't take the sedan-roof-temperature-challenge.
Data from the Arkansas State Police shows an average of 482 pursuits a year from 2018 through 2021, with troopers using a P.I.T. maneuver to stop a chase an average of 108 times. That equals about two a week. Since that time, ASP and the State of Arkansas have been sued and/or settled with the suspects and their families for over 25Million. In that time, three suspects died, and 204 others were injured with 43 troopers and 38 civilians also hurt.
That's a lot of payola in short-term settlement and long-term insurance costs, and potentially life-long injuries for innocent victims, replacement cop cars, etc. Have the chases sufficiently offset real or potential costs of crime by cutting short criminal behavior? That might be about impossible to calculate. Successful chases are gratifying to watch but are they worth it economically, socially? I'm not anti-chase by any means but there's always more to the calculus than mere emotional satisfaction of seeing criminals stopped and justice served.
Byrd should have little wrecked cars decals on the side of his cruiser like fighter planes had of downed enemy planes in war.
He'd be way beyond an ace.
🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
Byrd should have a wrecker just follow him around
@Rob Fall That comment made me laugh out loud. Thank you for that.
apparently you shouldn't say "planes" cos people "who know about planes" get upset and cry when they hear you say "planes".
While other police departments are "protect and serve", Arkansas is "pit and swerve" 😂
Byrd food
the cops need more dogs, and in pairs too, dogs need attention too :)
@@HarryNicNicholas PIT bulls.
To the og commenter, nice profile name 😂
Damn, I wish I'd come up with that first. . .
The car was scared because it knew it was Trooper Byrd and it flipped itself over to end it right away.
LOL
😂😂😂
Lol...yeah, the car was like get this dumb@ss out. Here, I'll help ya.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
You can run, but Byrd can fly.
💀
Byrd of Prey?
😂😂
it’s the BYRDMAN.
Underrated comment.
Trooper Byrd is becoming an internet legend
Theres gonna be memes and Merch
Byrd is the word
@@muffcabbage9742 Thanks Peter Griffin😉
Yeah!
I'd buy a Trooper Byrd t-shirt right now. Y'know what I think I'll have one made.
I wonder if I could get trooper Byrd to sign the dash of my Roadrunner lol
I kind of got to appreciate how Byrd even drove in the parking lot, other two cops were heavy on gas, and brakes, and turning, and Byrd was just you fellas go ahead, I'm going this way and casually doing muh thang
I agree, good observation.
I noticed that too.
Bryd must have some pit bloodhound in him cause he can smell one miles away. I wonder how many pits he has initiated
Trooper Byrd is dedicated!
Police don't like to talk about it, because knowing the tactic potentially means beating the tactic, but there is actually coordination to the madness. Even if it sometimes feels like it, not all units working the chase are just following the vehicle. There are units preparing stingers, units running "cleanup" (i.e. searching items reported thrown from the vehicle or attending to collisions on the way) and units anticipating the suspects movements and blocking them in. Cops, like wolves, hunt in packs - the goal is to disorient and hussle the fleeing driver until he is exhausted or makes a mistake. That being said, it looked like the trio of troopers were called out specifically for that chase by the local PD, so most likely Trooper Byrd when running to the squad car said something along the lines of "you guys tag on, imma run interference" to his buddies - and then he was just lucky that he zigged when the suspect zagged.
Trooper Byrd needs a loudspeaker to shout out to the perp who is behind him so he can just give up gracefully without damage.
They got loudspeakers in the cars. The switch is on the radio.
@@arnoldhenry I'm pretty sure it was a joke.
😂
Naw he needs to play surfin bird on the loudspeaker when chasing people
The more damage the better!
Just his presence caused the driver to pit themselves
😂😂
😂😂😂
That's a good one. They likely saw Byrd's cruiser license plate (A-19) and pitted themselves.
Oh shit I better drive off this cliff here
The Byrd is the word
He don’t miss✊✊✊
Well, everybody's talking about the Byrd!
I totally cannot imagine driving at those speeds. I've so much respect for those who do this tough job.
CA Police: we're going to stay a mile from them and let the copter watch them
AR Byrd: hold my beer and watch this shit!
He doesn't curse- remarks?
I meant remember?
@@patsysmothermon7861 he does but not much
Trooper Byrd has Astounding Knowledge of the streets, to be capable of predicting where the chase was headed and to intercept like that.
True, but to be fair if you’re patrolling an area year after year you have to have the knowledge of all the streets and highways/freeways. Most good experienced cops do this. You cannot rely upon GPS - it’s a distraction.
I’m a retired LEO.
I wonder if Trooper Byrd knows he is youtube famous around the world...I love this officer
Arkansas cops often ask people who flee if they have watched CZcams.. they know they are watched by hundreds of thousands of people
I think Florida police could be better then asp
@@matthewnorman9803 better than*
Prove it!!
@@samholdsworth420 czcams.com/video/NFW948Fv5M0/video.html
Oh I’m sure his colleagues will be making fun and winding him up about it.
All good banter and great for keeping up morale.
I still say that ASP should change "Protect & Serve" to "Fuck Around & Find Out"
You have designed my next T-Shirt with that comment. And it will be two sizes too large for exactly that reason.
Come on, David....you know the snowflakes would never allow it! ❄️🙃
They should paint wings in the sides of Byrd’s cruiser. He’s earned them.
Better yet, a silhouette of a car for every vehicle he's pitted, like fighter pilots did in World War Two when they shot down an enemy plane. Byrd would probably be a triple Ace by now.
Wouldn’t work bc he gets a new cruiser once a week. Lol
You had me at "Trooper Byrd".
The minute you see it’s The Byrd, you know it’ll be ending badly for the perpetrator 💯
I'd like to install a Byrd-detector on my next fast car, and it automatically pulls over.
Ive got something in my garage on a whole different level. Byrd couldnt make me a believer on his best day.
Ended upside down, with at least six cops pointing guns at him. Nice!
@@rs3maniac178
You peak my curiosity my son.
I build very fast cars, what puts yours at a different level?
@@rs3maniac178 Uh huh… sure. 🙄
When I read PIT and Trooper Byrd I thought this is going to be epic. Didn't realize the moron was going to PIT himself.🤣🤣🤣
😀😃😄😁😆😅😂😂😂😂😂
Byrd knows his streets very well caught up to them with no problem at all
Every time I see a video with Officer Byrd, I hear the music from jaws. He is on the hunt! Plus he is a true professional.
That trooper who initiated the pit shook up the driver who eventually lost control. No one gets hurt. Good job ASP! ❤
That trooper was Trooper Byrd who shook him up.
He crashed because the roads don't line up at the intersection. They're off by 6 feet.
The rabbits can run.
But the byrd can fly.
The man, the legend - Trooper Byrd🙌🏼
@ Alvaro Q True..... Although multiple people got hurt because this POS Chump wrecked out their cars who prob dont have enough insurance to cover for damages etc.
Always a pleasure watching Trooper Byrd in action. ❤stay safe to all ASP officers.
I have always been super impressed with Trooper Byrd's skills.....especially with the ability he has to track down the pursuit and get right on top of the action!!
Someone needs to do a new rendition of the Ghostbusters song for police pursuits in Arkansas, as we all know the answer to "Who you gonna call?".
p.s. I believe Trooper Byrd deserves his own CZcams channel, and appropriately name it......"Byrd - The Man, The Myth, The LEGEND!".
Trooper Byrd knows the area really really well, he was navigating those surface streets with such skill and accuracy for where the pursuit was and where it was heading. You can run, but you can never hide from a law enforcement officer who knows their area!
Great job as always Trooper Byrd!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@Verttime I see a dumbass but it’s not Trooper Byrd.
@@Verttime bless your heart.
This is why even when you are a criminal that you keep your eyes on the road and not the rearview mirror. Guy was watching for the next pit attempt and didn't even see the that road had moved. Didn't even hit the brakes until he was already hitting the first car.
He was so focused on Super Byrd 🦅 he forgot to look where he was going.
IKR! 😆
At the end of the video, the bush, the street, and the parked car sign sacrifice themselves to end this chase. Great job by the officers to lead the driver to these amazing heroes.
Rip bush. He served his community well
That was awesome! I never thought 2 cars could get into a fist fight. Byrdman can box too!! And as expected a Byrdman KO in the first round!
Self terminations are so satisfying especially when nobody else gets hurt in the process.
Always love me some Jacob Byrd. The one, the only, the legend. Good work all LEOs. I ❤ the ASP.
The Byrd Man strikes again....striking fear into the hearts of evil-doers on the highways and byways of Arkansas.
☺️
Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, Byrd is the word as the song goes.👮
We love the Byrd man and his no nonsense actions.
Love how Trooper Byrd got into the chase and took care of the problem
That self-pit at the end was great, LOL! 😂
Trooper Byrd is one damn good chaser. Great Job ASP..
Legend has it Arkansas State Police put a push bar on his push bar just so he can PIT more criminals
the Byrdman flying sideways through an intersection at 80MPH
"Speeds 30MPH, Traffic light"
The Byrd is the word.
These guys drive so darn fast! 135, or 140 mph and somehow they don't crash or wipe out other traffic! Awesome! BTW, Officer Byrd did not PIT this guy, the guy crashed. His big mistake was picking some dinky little backstreet to try to flee. That's the disadvantage every runaway baddie has to face. You have to GPS and plan your route. Byrd is like a predator, a raptor; he just extends his claws. You feel it in the way he drives!
They crash and wipe out more than you think.
"disadvantage every runaway baddie has to face. You have to GPS and plan your route" Sound advice for the next degenerate that decides to flee from police.
Actually from most of these videos, unless you have a supercar or V8 muscle car, most of the escapes seem to happen on residential roads because the suspect drives more recklessly than the troopers are willing to. Byrd is just hard to shake.
@@KevinSun242 You just need to know about what the police cars themselves are equipped with. The fastest police cars are the Ford Taurus Police Interceptor, which makes up to 365hp, and the Dodge Charger that makes up to 375hp. Most police cars are equipped with less powerful engines so the horsepower numbers above are a worst case scenario. The top speed is gonna be ~160-170mph for these cars. You need a fast car to outrun the cops on a simple road like the interstate, but hell even Ford Explorers are being equipped with 400hp these days. Give it another 10 years and minivans will be faster than the current fleet of cop cars.
They wipe out and crash frequently. It's part of their charm.
Very professional and very exciting!! Way to go Officer Byrd!!
YES! Love me some good ASP Pits by Trooper Byrd.
I love watching Trooper Byrd fly over the highways and kiss the back end to pit the runaway vehicle! LOL!! Stay safe out there officers!
Officer Byrd is so quick to put end at a poursuit we should start to call him "Lighting Byrd"
Oh how we love our dear and adorable Trooper Byrd!🥰 Bring that boot here Troop!😋😘
Too busy looking at the Byrd in the rear view mirror after a few love taps
Perp was like, "Hell, Trooper Byrd. You want a PIT? Let me show you a proper PIT." Perp then self PITs.
Wow, good on the Byrd Man for laying off with the pit when there were parked cars close by!
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought he'd pitted him into those cars, and was disappointed.
Give respect, earn respect.
Byrd's the MAN!
Trooper Byrd made the Kessel run in less than eleven parsecs… and PIT’ed Han Solo.
I would have figured him for Bubba Fett, he caught Solo.
Officer Byrd is becoming a legend in his own time . The others are no slough either.
I dread to think how many squad cards Byrd goes through in a year 😂
ASP's Trooper Byrd, is the "Prime Time Asphalt Rodeo Rockstar". ★★★★★ 👀 👍
Love it when The Byrd is uncaged!
*The Byrd Byrd Byrd, the Byrd is the word* !
Imagine being the owner of that totaled car that they hit. "WTF happened to my car?!? I have to go to work in the morning!"
Totally love Trooper Byrd!! The whole force is completely awesome. Hopefully I can get stronger and meet in person to shake some hands.😘
Beware of the Byrd!
Great job Officer Byrd! You rock!
Byrd is the king of pits!
Guy was probably looking in his mirror when he crashed lol
Approach The Byrd With Extreme Caution!
Like watching an NFL tackle go after a high school halfback. Very professional.
Anyone else try to help the Trooper to pit the vehicle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy! That state police detachment building was huge. Wasn't expecting that.
Byrd catches a mouse. News at 11. Thanks for posting this. Keep up the great work.
Excellent job as always ASP
I always say, you can NEVER out run the radio.
Tried to drive down the path as the road is a little to the right sunshine? Humiliation!
Great assist! Loved it! Professionally handled ASP! Love it Trooper Byrd!
❤❤❤😂😂😂 You can just hear him waiting for the gate “Dang,Dang,Dang,”…Byrd, think’s like a runner, so he can anticipate their moves !!! He got the charger when no one got close enough to get the tag !!!
Once again ASP gave the bad guy the Byrd !
Don't mess with the Po Po.......you gonna pay your dues. Facts.
It cracks me up, an LA , CA chase will last for hours, dozens of vehicals, air support and no one does a pit that would end the chase!
Please move this trooper as a true standard training officer for all states.🤗
The Byrd Man......The Legend.....
I'm still hoping for bodycams one day, a lot is missed sometimes after the end of a pursuit. Probably help with prosecutions as well occasionally.
Not sure if they already release footage of body cams but the release of the car cams is related to transparency and at this time it appears they are one of the few state agencies who are doing this. Cams not really much for the DAs as their cases are built on many other pieces of evidence beyond a question of doubt for a jury. I know that when it comes to releasing body cam footage audit the audit is one of the few channels who will find and release that information but it is solely related to transparency at the legal level. ASP gets an A+ for the transparency. They are not releasing these videos to showboat as it is a taxpayer funded state agency and they probably appreciate any constructive criticism.
@@mjohnson9563 I appreciate that anything spoken by anyone in the car would likely be inadmissible as evidence before a caution is delivered, but continuing the visual record of activity after the pursuit is terminated might sometimes have merit, even if to protect officers from allegations of undue heavy handedness during the arrest. And let's be entirely honest, we all want to see these fools with their faces in the weeds, don't we ? Regards
That driver got the Byrd!
When ya boys line up to get out the gate... you know it's bout to be a good time.
every trooper needs to be as menacing as trooper byrd
Oh trust me...ASP has a bunch of 'Byrds' on their force...I think each one of them have attributes that are especially unique to them and just as badass as Byrd...not saying Byrd is not worthy of all his praise just saying they have tons more that deserve as much praise themselves!! That whole force is the best of the BEST in this country imo
Trooper Byrd should write a book.. Maybe call it "Zen and the Art of the Pit Maneuver."
This is officer 👮♀ Byrd ………. Please preform the self pit maneuver. Thank you 😊
LoL 😂
Wow! Incredible driving
A-well-a everybody's heard about Jacob Byrd
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A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, well-a Byrd is the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, B-Byrd's the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, well-a Byrd is the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, B-Byrd is the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, B-Byrd's the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, Byrd, well-a Byrd is the word
A-well, a Byrd, Byrd, B-Byrd's the word
A-well-a don't you know about Jacob Byrd?
Well, everybody knows that the Byrd is the word
somebody get on the horn and see if the Byrd man is on duty tonight 🦅🦅
Its amazing how calm Trooper Byrd is during those pursuits, even when doing PITs, you can see how precise he is, so that no other cars are damaged. Amazing. Wish you all the best Sir.
I'm not a huge fan of how many PITs ASP does, but I gotta give huge respect to Byrd here for all the PIT opportunities he passed up that would have wrecked innocent peoples vehicles or possibly damaged their homes. For a lot of people something like that would be utterly devastating. Well done. Too bad this POS didn't take the sedan-roof-temperature-challenge.
A real good dose of Karma for the fleeing suspect at the end, I'll bet that hurt like hell. Great job ASP ! !
Man… poor street sign. Didn’t stand a chance.
Twas the hydrants lucky day.
6:20 Dude was brake checking the Byrd, until he felt that first contact. Then no more brake checking.
Certainly no shortage of idiots in Arkansas.
Data from the Arkansas State Police shows an average of 482 pursuits a year from 2018 through 2021, with troopers using a P.I.T. maneuver to stop a chase an average of 108 times. That equals about two a week. Since that time, ASP and the State of Arkansas have been sued and/or settled with the suspects and their families for over 25Million.
In that time, three suspects died, and 204 others were injured with 43 troopers and 38 civilians also hurt.
That's a lot of payola in short-term settlement and long-term insurance costs, and potentially life-long injuries for innocent victims, replacement cop cars, etc. Have the chases sufficiently offset real or potential costs of crime by cutting short criminal behavior? That might be about impossible to calculate. Successful chases are gratifying to watch but are they worth it economically, socially? I'm not anti-chase by any means but there's always more to the calculus than mere emotional satisfaction of seeing criminals stopped and justice served.
Well heck, if they paying big bucks for committing crimes, why not take advantage of it then. Pit me so I can get a few million.
Must be criminal enterprise then.
Step 1 be a criminal
Step 2 run from ASP
Step 3 make them PIT you
Step 4 sue ASP and the state
Byrd, Byrd...Byrd is the word.
Jacob Byrd, pit master.
You should show the perps face at the end and even put them on the thumbnail for maximum public humiliation.
Love the tour of the ASP facility prior to chase.
At this point...I feel like Trooper Byrd has reached Judge Dredd status
Byrd swooping in and clinging to them like seran wrap freaked them out so badly they forgot how to drive
The Byrd-man cometh , and the Byrd-man taketh away.
Well done fellas !!
Super Trooper Byrd can technically put another notch in his belt.
If it was possible for me to have less than zero sympathy for these characters, I would.
Every time they do one of these might be their last. Brave men ❤️
Thank God for police officers.....