NYPD announced a change in its policy on high-speed chases​. There's a new directive to keep the public, and officers, safe while catching criminals.

New York City’s police department is curbing its use of high-speed chases after finding that about one-quarter of more than 2,200 initiated by officers last year led to a collision, property damage, physical harm or death.

The NYPD is asking for your help identifying a man it says set off a string of small fires in Lower Manhattan and Queens, including one aboard a subway train.

Police are looking for a suspected serial arsonist accused of setting at least four fires within hours of each other last week. In the first incident, police say the suspect intentionally started a fire that damaged a parked NYPD car in front of City Hall around 2:20 a.