. >> a white mazda on mainberry, north of howard. elizabeth: the dashcam video showing the officer with a civilian guest in the cruiser over this mazda. but the driver takes off and the officer chases after within seconds, the woman in the cruiser, screams as the squad car is about to come under fire, e. >> shots fired. elizabeth: and watch, just as they turn a corner, you can see the gunfire. in all, someone from the passenger side shoots a dozen times. >> shots fired. elizabeth: three of the bullets hitting and disabling the police cruiser, forcing the officer to end the pursuit. the police department later sharing these pictures of the patrol car's windows shattered, and this, police say, is the gun found in the car, the suspect abandoned. madera police, like so many other departments across the country, takes civilians out as part of the citizens academy to show how police work, and they say the outcome could have been say the outcome could have been much worse. >> as far as close calls, this was a very close situation where an o