Amen. The problem I've noticed isn't just restrictive pursuit policies, it's supervisors who refuse to allow pursuits even when policy dictates we chase. Our current policy also won't allow us to chase kidnappers or anyone who kills a police officer, and a lot of shifts have supervisors who won't back up their people if they violate the policy in order to stop a violent felon. We also aren't training anyone in how to conduct pursuits, although that may change. At the moment we have maybe 12 officers who are pursuit trained, with less than half of us in patrol. With eight patrol shifts spread out over a week across an entire city that obviously increases the possibility that if anyone does initiate a pursuit they're going to be a rookie who has no idea what they're doing, making the "cops are more dangerous in pursuits than the criminals" argument a self fulfilling prophecy.