Bullets tend to ricochet off car bodies.
And if an officer hits a criminal driving a car, the officer may only succeed in turning the vehicle into a 2,000-pound unguided missile. In real life your odds of 'killing' a car are about as good as becoming the next chief of police. The officer said he fired because the car was about to run him over. The contention here is if a vehicle is coming at you, you have the option to get out of the way. The number of car shootings by District police far exceeds the numbers for other high-crime cities like New York City and Miami, The Post found.