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Should Texas DPS update its high-speed pursuit policy?

“No one runs from the state police,” is unofficially the policy of the Texas DPS, according to several sources in local law enforcement who asked that their names not be used in this story for obvious reasons. They also don’t want to say that their own departments avoid high-speed pursuits unless it involves a felony or serious misdemeanor.“No one wants to put the word out that we won’t engage in high-speed pursuits if it only involves two pounds of pot or five illegals, let’s say” said one. “No one is going to say that, but that’s what some police chiefs ...

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