Bruscar: downstairs: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: Simplest answer.

After the sideshow starts, block all the roads leading to it. Then send in the squad cars.

They'll run....but they can't leave. So they'll get out of the cars and run.

Let them.

Then tow all the cars as abandoned in the roadway.

Repeat until they're tired of paying for towing, storage fees, and repairs.

Nobody gets shot, nobody gets marked as a criminal, and it ends within a month.

They say there aren't enough cops.  Seriously, they do (at least here in NOLA).

But I drive through neighborhoods where there are magically a ton of cops busting a single black dude who isn't even putting up a fight.

Also, car meets tend to include all races, but often the white people outnumber the Black, Hispanic, and Asian people. Car meet people are frequently armed - especially the white people. Car meets often make use of a look out system with vehicles reporting police activity to one another via cellphone sometimes for quite a distance away. Based on those reports, the meet will move multiple times in a night sometimes racing on the interstate between sites. The key vehicles have been customized to make them faster. The key participants are YOUNG men with the sense of invulnerability that comes with that developmental stage for that gender. Pursued by cops, they will travel at whatever the top speed of their vehicle is and employ strategies like briefly turning off ALL the vehicle lights to make it harder for LEO to track them. Chasing them, therefore, creates more danger to others.