Police reform advocates criticized the original policy as too “vague” and said it gave officers too much discretion to chase someone they suspect of a crime.
"Interim" chase rules that take effect Friday will not prevent chases that can lead to deadly encounters, activists say. The public still can comment on the policy until July 15, and that input could be incorporated into a permanent policy.
Two weeks after Chicago police released its first draft of a foot pursuit policy, activists and attorneys with the Consent Decree Coalition called the document confusing, said it gives officers too much discretion and doesn’t require documentation of every chase.
Police and State Violence Have Secondary Impacts: Complex and Lasting Trauma
Residents walk past police as they shadow demonstrators protesting police brutality marching toward downtown on August 15, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois.
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These last weeks, months, years and decades we keep on adding names to the list Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright, Ma’Khia Bryant, Ronald Johnson, Pierre Loury, Rekia Boyd, Nickolas Lee, Laquan McDonald, Archie Lee Chambers, Maurice Granton, Anthony Alvarez.… The list of victims of police murder seems never-ending. Then there is the list of police torture survivors Gerald Reed, Stanley Howard, Tony Anderson, Darrell Fair, Sean Tyler, Kilroy Watkins, and on and on and on. Many of us speak these names. We show up at the rallies and actions demanding justice. We work tirelessly to dismantle the long-serving systems and structures that brutalize and kill Black and Brown bodies. We feel the anger and the terror. But, we don’t often