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When my wife's phone was stolen in downtown Dallas, I followed the guy for a while until a "Safety Patrol" guy took up the pursuit. He was on a bicycle, and the thief was on foot. Needless to say, he let the guy get away. When I was talking to another "Safety Patrol" guy and a cop after the fact, I was pretty upset that they let the guy get away. I told the cop I could have just shot him. The cop said, well why didn't you? My response was that it just isn't worth taking a life over a couple hundred dollars, and I thought the "Safety Patrol" guy would actually try to catch the thief. The "Safety Patrol" guy said they don't have the authority to detain anyone unless they catch them in the act (I guess if you get mugged, you better hope they are across the street watching). In the end, even though they had street cameras which could have identified the thief, along with other evidence my wife and I provided (I was able to collect further information about the thief after the fact), the cops never did anything to recover my wife's phone, and the detective seemed pretty uninterested in working the case. Faced with the same situation again, I probably still wouldn't draw my weapon, though I might continue the chase until I saw a real cop.