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Police Car Chases Plummet After Policy Shift\u00a0<\/p>\n
October 29, 2025<\/p>\n
THE CITY\u2019s 2024 investigations into the massive spike in deadly police car chases<\/a> led to changed NYPD policies<\/a> and a significant drop<\/a> in vehicle pursuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n We found that police car pursuits resulted in more than one crash per day in 2024, causing 20 deaths and more than 600 injuries. THE CITY has been tracking this trend ever since vehicle pursuits and deadly collisions began to skyrocket<\/a> in late 2022 under the leadership and directives of now-retired Chief of Police John Chell (whom the city later revealed to have been dodging his taxes<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n Within a month, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued new guidance<\/a> to limit use of the aggressive tactic \u2013 within weeks, data showed car chases dropped by 66%<\/a>. In October 2025, City Councilmember Tiffany Cab\u00e1n introduced legislation<\/a> to further limit dangerous police chases.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tOUR REPORTING ON THE ISSUE<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tMore Than a Crash a Day as NYPD Keeps Pedal to the Metal on Car Chases<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tDecember 16, 2024April 15, 2025, 12:39 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tLawmaker Seeks to Curb Deadly NYPD Car Chases After Upsurge<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tOctober 29, 2025Oct. 29, 2025, 10:45 a.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tNYPD Car Chases Drop by 66% in First Weeks of Policy Shift<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tJanuary 30, 2025Jan. 30, 2025, 5:47 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tNew NYPD Commissioner Reverses Course on Deadly Vehicle Pursuits<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tJanuary 15, 2025Jan. 22, 2025, 12:14 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Thank you for reading \u2014 and for being a part of what makes the city and THE CITY so great. Please consider donating<\/a> to help keep our reporters on the beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n To read more about THE CITY\u2019s impact, view our impact page<\/a>. Or, read our latest impact report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Car Chases Plummet After Policy Shift\u00a0 October 29, 2025 THE CITY\u2019s 2024 investigations into the massive spike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-147006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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