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H.R. 5143: District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker
H.R. 5143·119th Congress·Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025
This bill repeals restrictions on the circumstances under which law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia (DC) may engage in vehicular pursuits (i.e., police chases) of suspects fleeing in motor vehicles, and instead generally requires such pursuits in the absence of other means of apprehension.
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Currently, pursuant to DC's Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022, law enforcement officers generally may not engage in vehicular pursuits of suspects fleeing in motor vehicles unless the officer reasonably believes (1) the suspect was involved in a crime of violence or poses an immediate and serious threat to another person, (2) the pursuit is necessary to prevent that threat and is not likely to result in death or serious injury to any person, and (3) all other options have been exhausted or are unreasonable given the circumstances.
The bill repeals these restrictions and instead requires law enforcement officers to engage in vehicular pursuits of suspects fleeing in motor vehicles unless the officer or a higher-ranking officer reasonably believes that (1) such pursuit would be futile, (2) the pursuit would entail an unacceptable risk of harm to a person other than the suspect, or (3) the suspect can be apprehended more effectively or expeditiously by other means.
The bill also requires the Department of Justice to report to Congress on the costs and benefits of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department adopting technology that alerts the public of an active police pursuit in their immediate vicinity.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
On PassagePassed245 yea, 182 naySeptember 17, 2025 · Roll call 275
How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote
VotedVoted yea or nay
BrokeBroke with party
Share
Swing
54
21
39%
Middle
225
6
3%
Entrenched
140
1
1%
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Committees and subjects
Committees
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseMarkup by · Referred to
Members fall into . 3 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the House
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has. Where the House has voted, each member’s appears with the projection made before it.
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
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0
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All voting members
420
28
7%
: Pair any member who broke with one who stayed with their party: in 90% of those pairs, the one who broke had the higher swing score before the vote. Chance would be 50%.
Projections from swing-v3, computed with data from before the vote. Present and not voting never count as breaking.
Similar votesNo dataCommitteeNo committee seatToo few votes on similar bills to measure
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Ideology vs. swing score, House
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Swing score
SWING ZONE 70+Entrenched below 30
Ringed dots broke with their party on the vote.
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Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 3 sponsor and cosponsors in the House: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched. 3 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 30.0 (needs 5.0).
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PassedSame bill×3.0
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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 5585 · Jan 30, 2024 · Roll call 742On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedShared subjects×1.0
H.Con.Res. 40 · May 18, 2023 · Roll call 226On Agreeing to the ResolutionExpressing support for local law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund or dismantle local law enforcement agencies
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.Con.Res. 40 · May 18, 2023 · Roll call 225On Agreeing to the Amendment
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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Passed
Same policy area
×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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Michael R. TurnerRepublican · Ohio 10th · Lean R+3House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn the ballotIdeology gapScorecard gapCross-pressureSimilar votesCommitteeBroke with party on 7% of 45 similar votesToday90SwingVote on passage, Sep 17, 2025:YeaProjected at the vote: Swing
