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 ...

Cops chased after 2,278 fleeing vehicles throughout the five boroughs last year. About 25%, or 569, ended in a collision that caused either property damage or harmed someone, the NYPD said. About ...

NEW YORK — New York City’s police department is curbing its use of high-speed chases after finding that about one-quarter of more than 2,200 initiated by officers last year led to a collision ...

"I think it is a reiteration of old policies to keep the [legal] wolves at bay," said Giacalone, adding that for years NYPD sergeants and lieutenants had the authority to call off police vehicle ...