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Proof-Variation7005 t1_iuya6ev wrote

He's blamed for the "don't chase" policy but the Police Department put it in place in 2014 internally before he took office. He wasn't really clamoring to change it either. But, a couple city councilors were awfully vocal about allowing pursuits right before police pursued a group of ATVs and put one of them into a coma. There's been less popularized incidents where these "we're chasing you but not really" have led to pedestrians being injured by ATVs too.

That one is hard to win. He and the police did a fairly good job encouraging people to dime out their neighbors. But the city also had the embarrassing episode where a bunch of seized bikes and ATVs were stolen out of a city-owned garage about 5 years ago.

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Dinosquid t1_iv53b64 wrote

Not to mention the “don’t chase” policy is because when people get injured in those chases they sue the city (see: Baltimore, Philly), which brings our taxes up even higher.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_iv5yvbj wrote

The financial factor is there but I care way more about people not getting hurt or killed than relatively paltry sums of money covered by insurance.

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Dinosquid t1_iv6cjpl wrote

I just want to sue the city, but Elorza refuses to chase me!!

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