In an NBC News report that came out the day after the conference that revealed the new rule, “Officers won’t be allowed to chase people on foot if they’re suspected of minor offenses such as parking violations, driving on suspended licenses or drinking alcohol in public.”

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The jury’s still out on whether or not this means that people stopped for these offenses will now take it upon themselves to sprint in the other direction to avoid being charged for a crime. But for now, I think this has been enacted to avoid travesties that are already taking place. 

Let’s face it, just like any other rule that has gaping potential for loopholes, these loopholes will be exploited. It comes back, however, to what’s better for public good in terms of citizens dying as a result of outmoded police policies regarding the use of force.

I’m not sure where I land on the city’s decision to enact this policy. But I can say that Chicago has routinely made bleeps on my radar when I’ve looked into violent crimes over recent years. Specifically, Chicago has extremely tight gun laws that might prohibit normal citizen’s ability to defend themselves in a city where homicides are among the highest in the nation. 

In fact, in just the first month of 2016, 316 homicides were reported, many of which were the result of gun violence. But New York City, which is three times its size, had 244 homicides for the first six months of the same year. 

Whatever the case happens to be, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more statistics coming out of the Midwest’s largest city as this policy is put to the test. 

The policy was apparently long-awaited, by the way, and has been the subject of some hot debate in recent months by Chicagoans demanding a change to police activities that have allowed so many police involved killings. In fact, it’s both inspired from, and very closely aligned with, an earlier draft of the measure, which the AP reports, “Among its rules, the new policy prohibits foot pursuits for minor traffic violations, bars officers from separating from partners if they can’t see the suspect they’re chasing, or if the officer or the suspect is injured. Under the new policy, the chase must end if the officer has lost track of their location or their surroundings, if there is too great a distance or too many obstacles between the officer and the suspect they are chasing, and if they will not be able to control the subject of the chase in a confrontation.”

Stick around after the break, where I’ll be talking about a Texas gun store robbed at knifepoint, which is just as funny as it sounds, and what has turned out to be a huge week for women in the world of gun rights.

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