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I recently learned that cops can’t drive after fleeing vehicles in SF.

I looked into this because I saw multiple instances of cars driving insanely fast near me, and soon after seeing cops with their lights on. These cars were doing 45+ in a residential area where max 30 or 25 would be appropriate.

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That's the same as the city I live in - end result is kids on motorcycles flying around city streets as +30mph over the speed limit, blowing past red lights and going the wrong way down streets.

I can't imagine some sort of high speed chase would be a better situation but I'm not certain that alternative is an order of magnitude worse; seems like it might be marginally worse.

Is the law that they can't ever do it or that they can only do it if said person is a danger to others? The cops in WA bitch and moan about similar restrictions, but the law explicitly allows them to drive after fleeing suspects in those exact circumstances they are worried about.

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