No more high-speed chases for you!Follow

I think this is really cool, though I find it funny that the police will be using the equivalent of high-powered paintball guns ("A small number of patrol cars will be equipped with the compressed air launchers, which fire the miniature GPS receivers in a sticky compound resembling a golf ball.") to catch hi-speed drivers.



What happens if they miss and hit a different car?

I think the purpose is to be able to "head them off at the pass" much sooner, and if the suspect should somehow evade police long enough to get out of sight range, they're still being tracked and can be pounced on accordingly.

Well, I suppose with GPS tracking they could establish some sort of roadblock in an effort to cut the suspect short... but that method has been the main purpose of police force helicopters for years and years now.

This all just seems like they are grasping at any "solution", no matter how impractical, to try and appease the interest groups who heavily oppose high speed pursuits.

Anything is worth a shot if it stops the whole Dukes of Hazard mentality so many police departments adopt. I'm tired of seeing chases end in tragedy because police feel the need to fly at breakneck speeds through crowded streets filled with innocent bystanders as their testosterone levels skyrocket. All it does is spur the offender on at higher speeds and even more reckless driving in an attempt to get away from their pursuers.

I don't understand why these morons haven't figured out that high speed chases almost always end in massive injuries and death, and most of the time those injuries and deaths involve people who had nothing to do with the crime. They need to back the hell off if they have a helicopter overhead. The suspects aren't going anywhere because they sure as hell aren't going to outrun one of those. If they adopt these GPS trackers as part of their ******** it further de-emphasizes any validation on their part to put the public at risk.