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The Chicago Police Department (CPD) on Tuesday announced a new foot-pursuit policy that prohibits officers from pursuing people under certain circumstances.
Chicago officials will no longer be able to persecute people because they are fleeing confrontations or people chasing small incidents, among other things, under the new policy.
CPD Superintendent David Brown emphasized his hope that the new policy will improve employee safety and accountability, as well as trust between employees and communities during a press conference on Tuesday.
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“This is new to the Chicago Police Department. It’s not new to law enforcement. … Make employees safer,” he told reporters.
Chicago Police Chief David Brown emphasized his hope that the new foot-pursuit policy will improve employee safety and accountability, as well as trust between employees and communities during a press conference on Tuesday. (Chicago Police Department Facebook)
Pursuit policies “keep officers safe” and limit the “physicality” between officers and offenders – especially armed offenders. It also helps police departments “train officers” to be safer during a foot chase, he said.
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Employees may engage in prosecution when they believe that the need to detain an offender outweighs the risk of prosecuting potentially armed suspects to both the public and staff. Law enforcement officials must have good reason to want to detain fugitive offenders under the new policy.
“Because of the inherent risks associated with [f]Oh [p]on request, the most appropriate tactical option for the safe detention of a fleeing person will differ in each circumstance, ”the new policy states.
Employees will need to establish a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime or other crime that endangers public safety in order to prosecute. Members of law enforcement will be barred from prosecuting those who commit or are about to commit more minor crimes under the new rule.
In addition, the CPD will review all foot persecution, according to a draft policy.
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“The safety of members of our community and our officers remains at the heart of this new pursuit policy,” the superintendent said in a statement. “We have worked internally with our employees and externally with our residents to develop a policy in which we all have a stake.”
The new policy comes after two fatal shootings of 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez and 13-year-old Adam Toldeo last year, but Brown suggested at a news conference on Tuesday that the department has been researching foot-pursuit policies for years. .
A video released by the Chicago Civil Liability Office shows Adam Toledo dead before he was fatally shot. (Chicago COPA)
Both deaths, which were filmed by a body camera and surveillance footage, sparked protests in the United States, as well as calls from latino leaders for a moratorium on police harassment. Records of the incidents show that the chases were pursued before both shootings, and the suspects appear to have had guns before being shot.
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So far in 2022, 25 CPD employees have been shot or shot, Brown told reporters on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, shooting has fallen by 22% year-on-year since June last year, and homicides have fallen by 21% year-on-year. In addition, the CPD detected 2,600 illegal firearms in 2021.
David Aaro of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email advice to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
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