The guy had to think pretty fast to come up with this solution, I’m not sure I would of thought of it.
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I can understand what you mean from a static point of view. I’m sure that you’ve responded to situations in your life experiences where in hindsight you may not have figured you would have responded the way you did in the crisis. Being in the moment pulls something out of us that is deeply seated that consciously we may not have been readily aware of. That’s the benefit of multi-faceted training which helps to install facilities whether we’ll ever use them or not IMO. An empty suit would have just stood there with there hands on the head in denial.
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I thought police carried that tool that can shatter modern glass with a single blow? Is that what was used? Article doesn’t say.
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Shooting at a window when there are people inside sounds kinda risky to me. Bullets can sometimes do strange things when they hit glass or hit something else after they hit the glass. But if that was the only tool available I guess I would have used it if other options wouldn’t work in time.
I carry a window breaker wedged in the storage compartment on the drivers side door of all our vehicles for situations like this.
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If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid. 
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When I was a cop in the Stone Age, I tried to break a car window to make an arrest. I tried wacking the window with my night stick only to come away amazed that that did not work. But the sight of me beating on the car window scared the perp and he unlocked the door and gave up.
Car windows break when you poke (very hard) at them.
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It’s cool to have those kinds of tools, but one also has to be mindful that if the vehicle is submerging and manages to use one of those glass breaking devices the direction the glass is going travel due to pressure or force of the water. This would mean a face full of glass. If dry land or the vehicle doors and windows are not covered and the occupant keeps their bearings then it’s all good, use the device. But if underwater, it can be a different picture. Particular if a person is in panic mode. As for the LEO using a gun, I’d like to think that the vehicle was already submerged, and he knew where the occupants were and shot in a way that there was low chance of ricochet. As you’ve stated, if that’s the only means available, he had to be creative really fast.
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The article says the LEO shot at the window in the first sentence.
Shows my reading comprehension and memory skills then.
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No worries. It happens to me more frequently than I care to admit.
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Bruce26 …If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.
Me: I just try not to tell anybody just how stoopid I was … The more I talk sometimes
I just prove them right ! I personally wouldn’t shoot in this instance, a bullet doesn’t have a brain
and once it leaves the barrel that’s it brother, ya can’t take it back.
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Sooo… I guess you could just watch her drown and wait for the tow truck. 
If it had not worked he would be in deep 
. But it did and now he is a hero.
I have been on many accident scenes and sometimes you have to think outside your training.
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On further review of my last statement I bow to your wisdom my friend.
But I carry a 'palm knife in my boot, My EDC CRKT also has a pommel on the end also. But if we were all gurgling our last breath I would do whatever I possibly could to save lives, if she got nicked I’m sorry but it’s better than wheels up. My Bad Bruce
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Thought I saw a tough like battering pen on Amazon for bout $10.
Also (light-weight & portable):
And:
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Does that mean I would actually have to carry them?
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Or keep them in the car in an easily accessible place.
Though if your car is in an accident, that spot may not be accessible anymore.
So on your person is a better place.
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Or else, what’s the point of having them, right?
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I have these in both of my vehicles, they come with a breakaway zip tie and I attached them to the visor, out of the way but within reach.
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