I would think as an officer of the law and being that you get a call about gang related situations, and you roll up to the scene by yourself, your going to take all the procautions possible. who knows what kind of retarts those apparent "gang bangers" are, they might want to kill a cop as their initiation. play cat and mouse, the cop runs over, checks him out and some wanna-be, takes his life... the "gang banger" life-style makes alot of knuckleheads act a fool. whats worse is those kids would get their ass handed to them if they went to newark, camden, jersey city, elizabeth and irvington.