re: Thank you, you progressive pieces of shite.

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Article says it was the police department that halted pursuits.

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White said his friend who took the video asked the police officers afterwards why they didn't chase the suspect, and was allegedly told that Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms 'issued an order not to chase cars around Atlanta because she doesn't want the police getting in accidents.'

But it appears to be the police department itself that introduced the measure. In January 2020, former Police Chief Erika Shields halted police pursuits all together, deciding they put people in too much danger after three people were killed in police pursuits in just one month.

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