police tactic

In New Haven, Conn., in March, police had trapped two car-theft suspects in a multifamily building whose occupants were hiding from the suspects, thus necessitating urgency in ending the siege.

Officers ordered a K-9 unit but were told it would be delayed.

In a tactic departments occasionally employ, officers still threatened to release the dogs immediately, and to make the threat credible, available officers began barking.

The suspects quickly surrendered rather than face the vicious canines.