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NYPD changes its policy on high-speed police chases, cracking down after injuries, damage and death
New York City’s police department is cracking down on high-speed chases after finding that about one-quarter of more than 2,200 initiated last year led to a collision, property damage, physical harm or death.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch issues new police vehicle pursuit policy
The commissioner announced that police cars will not long engage in speedy pursuits of suspects except in cases of violent felonies and misdemeanors.
New York City Reforms Police Car Chase Policy Amid Rising Crashes
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New, stricter NYPD vehicle pursuit policy announced by police commissioner
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Wednesday a new policy for Police Department vehicle pursuits. The policy sets guidelines and standards for when officers are permitted to engage in vehicle pursuits.
Chase ‘brake’: NYPD Commish Tisch bars unnecessary street pursuits in latest policy shift
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch continued Wednesday to make sweeping changes within the NYPD — this time with dramatic shifts in the department’s vehicle pursuit policy. Officer pursuits will now only be permitted in which suspected,
New NYPD Commissioner Reverses Course on Deadly Vehicle Pursuits
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday announced a new police vehicle pursuit policy that she said would “make both the police and the public safer,” reforming a tactic that had been aggressively carried out under previous police leadership.
2 Philadelphia men plead guilty to killing SWAT officer in 2020 as police served murder warrant
Two Philadelphia men pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and racketeering charges in the March 2020 shooting death of a city ...
About that white van in Indianapolis with a hand sticking out, here's what police have learned
A hand sticking out the back of a van in Indianapolis caused a stir on social media from people who wanted to make sure it ...
Detective admits accessing family's police records
A detective has admitted accessing police records several times about himself and members of his family over a 10-year period ...
Woman vanishes as police find car in ditch, arrest driver in puzzling disappearance
Hamilton Police are searching for Chastity Ann Terry after she disappeared in Guin, Alabama on Jan. 10. A car she was ...
Shooting on same Harrisburg block where woman was killed is unrelated, police say
Gibson was fatally shot in the chest around 11:19 p.m. while inside her home on the corner of the 300 block of Hummel Street, ...
Where the Police Used a Taser on a Bible-Reading Great-Grandmother
A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, ...
Tren de Aragua gang members charged after terrorizing Aurora, Colorado residents for months: police
Nine suspected members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua accused of an armed home invasion and kidnapping ...
Police force warns of impact of £4m funding cut
Paul Sanford, the chief constable of Norfolk Police, has written to James Wild, the Conservative MP for North West Norfolk, ...
Police Officer Shoots Man Who Called 911 to Report a Burglary
The victim, the police said, was carrying a knife. The shooting, which occurred after a five-second encounter, was under ...
San Francisco police locate 1992 cold case murder suspect awaiting trial in Colorado
More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in an alley in San Francisco's Chinatown, police said they have located the ...