Don't know for sure but it sure looks like a training film to me. Why else would there have been a camera and crew.
Cheers
Willis
Ah! So! thanks Jim, but I still think it would be good for a training film Sure seen enough of them in my life.Willis, no, it was real. The show "COPS" rides along for a week or two in a jurisdiction and tapes everything. They then edit it down to a half-hour show. In this case, the officer was unlucky enough to be involved in a pursuit and then even more unlucky to get hung up on the tracks.