Over the weekend, Illinois State Police joined Northwest Indiana officers in pursuing a vehicle carjacked in Chicago. While the stolen 2011 silver Hyundai Elantra eventually crashed, it wasn’t without at least 4 patrol cruisers getting damaged by police, along the way.

 It turns out teenagers in an Elantra: one 15-year-old girl and two boys, 15 and 13, led police on a 45-mile chase that ended in Indiana after damaging a total of six vehicles.

 The patrol cars were damaged in various ways from attempted PIT maneuvers with the Elantra, slamming into walls, and even catching fire, being hit by a non-involved vehicle and the last one punctured by a spike strip laid by Indiana officers.

 The chase was finally ended only when the Hyundai exited the highway and crashed into a median in Merrillville, Indiana

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/state-police-wreck-4-patrol-vehicles-chasing-teen-carjackers

so how much did it cost the taxpayers to have the police fail to stop (a median stopped them, an inanimate piece of sod between freeway lanes) some kids in a Hyundai?

 I bet the total cost tot he taxpayers was at least $100,000