On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) issued a directive for police pursuing people on foot. Fox News noted of the policy, “Officers must be in ‘continual communication’ with the subject, and ‘position themselves in such a way to reduce the opportunity for a foot chase.’ The officers must also ‘ask themselves of the need to apprehend the subject is worth the risk to responding officers, the public, or the subject.'”
The impetus for the new policy, the website for the city of Chicago explained, was as follows:
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