NYPD vehicle pursuits have dropped by two-thirds in the two weeks since Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced a policy to ...

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The NYPD will pump the brakes on pursuing suspects wanted for lesser crimes, announced Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch last Wednesday.

New rules from the New York Police Department restrict when vehicles can chase suspects, a reform that addresses safety concerns over the dangerous tactic. The policy, announced Wednesday by NYPD ...

In 2024, , there were 2,278 vehicle pursuits by the NYPD. A full 25 percent of those chases resulted in “some combination of a collision, property damage, or physical harm.” On top of that ...

The NYPD updated its policy regarding when officers can initiate vehicle pursuits on Wednesday. While the old rules gave officers little direction on when to engage in car chases, the new guidance ...

Kudos to new Police Commissioner Jessie Tisch for continuing her thorough scrubbing of the NYPD with two automobile-related reforms. The damp crevices of huge bureaucracy are where the black mold ...

The rule change — first reported by Streetsblog — came after a staggering rise in NYPD car chases, many of which led to devastating crashes that left innocent New Yorkers injured or dead.

NYPD officers will no longer be allowed to chase after vehicles fleeing car stops under a new departmentwide policy that allows pursuits only when a felony crime or a violent misdemeanor is ...