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To be honest that's a very simple and not articularely dangerouse manouver. I've praciced it and can quite successfully pull it off, I surprised my teammates by doing it once in a test and beating both their times as a result, most people don't attempt it because it looks hard, but really there's little to it, esspecially in a long car such as that cop car. The hardest part is changing gear and a long car like that gives you more time to do it because it takes longer for the front to spin round.
The idea is to break traction in the front wheels, which can be acheived just by locking the wheels as you quickly jerk the wheel as fast as you can, one way a little then the other to upset the car. The plan is to make it rough, because smooth driving keeps the car stable and prevents it spinning. The main problem after that is not spinning the wheels as you drive off, I usually put the car into 2nd because its easier to get the stick there, and seems to give the best traction if you're careful.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
I've done that myself, but always in a large, vacant parking lot where contact won't happen. Doing it, even with a great driver, is dumb when there are any pedestrians withing striking distance.
Th police are taught this manouvre as part of defensive driving, used when say armed robbers go down a dead end and then try to force themselves out and also when driving diplomats or commissioners
I learnt it in a field, and I admit that there is a very real chance of a roll doing that. I did wear a helmet and to be honest it probably wouldn't have hurt much if it had rolled, it doesn't carry much momentum, but then you can get unlucky.
I nearly rolled at 60km/h once, the irony was it was a nice long straight(ish) and I came over a brow and braked, before I knew it I was sailing down the hill sideways on 2 wheels, that might well have hurt, I was heading for barrel rolls if it had gone over.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
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