Running the risk of getting off topic but as far as not being worth getting hurt...sure. But if that property crime is also a felony observed by the officer and the suspect goes a runnin, I'm not just going to stand there with my finger up my nose. God forbid the "cops never do anything" crowd got wind of that. Its what I'm paid to do.
In my experience there was always something more to it when someone boogies from a stolen car, using that again as an example. More often than not they stick around if it's just a possession of stolen property. The ones with probation violations, felonious warrants, dope, felons with guns, gang members, combinations of some or all of the above...are the folks who rabbit. Vehicle pursuits though...fuhgetaboutit
I don't know what the difference is. They might have dope, guns, or warrants too. Guns I'm not particularly scared of, I usually have one or two myself. For dope, what they do to themselves shouldn't necessarily be the business of the state. As for warrants, most could have been settled peacefully by someone picking them up at home or at work months before an encounter on the street.
I'm not chiming in here to say I'm against Tasers or other stun guns because I'm not. Every person should be allowed to carry them as a defensive weapon, same as a firearm.
But since they are not nonlethal but only (mostly) nonlethal, their use simply to gain compliance of a person who is not an immediate danger would be, in my view, over the line.
It's a tough call, I must admit, but it's what you are paid to do. That whatever you do, someone isn't going to like, is a virtual guarantee.