Trump should force the District of Columbia to allow police pursuits

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“A 10-year-old child has just been struck by an illegal dirt bike. He’s in critical condition. The group of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes is headed north. Locate, pursue, and detain.”

In a normal capital city, those words would approximate how a police dispatcher would respond after a child was struck by a hit-and-run driver. But not in Washington.

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