[Mark B]

They crushed them to make a point/example. Sure they could have parted the cars out or whatever, but what does that do? It puts go fast parts in the hands of people who will do what with those parts? Street race. By crushing the cars, they are trying to scare the other street racers & send a message. Well worth the 30k hit they took by not parting out the cars.

As said above, the reason the police were allowed to crush the cars is because parts of the cars were stolen. From how the story reads, it sounds like most of the drivers were part of gangs anyway. Im sure the cops had good reasons to pick these 6 cars.