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Old 02-06-2006, 10:18 AM   #1
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Default LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases (GPS Dart)

LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases (GPS Dart)

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Question: "Chief, you said Los Angeles is the car chase capital of the world. What makes it that way?"

Answer: "There are a lot of nuts here."

With that street-cop psychology, Chief William J. Bratton unveiled Thursday a new and decidedly strange weapon in the LAPD's effort to halt high-speed pursuits.

It is an air-propelled miniature dart equipped with a global positioning device. Once fired from a patrol car, it sticks to a fleeing motorist's vehicle and emits a radio signal to police.

Bratton hailed the dart as "the big new idea" and said that if the pilot program was successful, Los Angeles' seemingly daily TV fix of police chases could be a thing of the past.

"Instead of us pushing them doing 70 or 80 miles an hour … this device allows us not to have to pursue after the car," Bratton said. "It allows us to start vectoring where the car is. Even if they bail out of the car, we'll have pretty much instantaneously information where they are."

U.S. Department of Justice officials, Bratton said, suggested that the StarChase system, the brainchild of a Virginia company, be tested in Los Angeles. A small number of patrol cars will be equipped with the compressed air launchers, which fire the miniature GPS receiver in a sticky compound resembling a golf ball, for four to six months as a trial.

There were more than 600 pursuits in Los Angeles and more than 100,000 nationwide last year. Critics have long questioned the wisdom of police pursuits because they can endanger bystanders and officers.

Los Angeles' love-hate relationship with police chases goes back at least to O.J. Simpson's slow-speed pursuit across Southern California freeways in 1994.

LAPD chases — as well as pursuits by other agencies — often end violently. Last year, an LAPD officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy, who was driving a stolen car, at the end of a pursuit. This week, a pursuit in Chino ended with a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy firing at the passenger of the car in a controversial incident caught on videotape.

With such things as license-plate reading SMART police cars and facial-recognition cameras, the LAPD is trying to become a testing ground for innovative police technology, Bratton said.

The LAPD may even consider using technology that would disable a vehicle's electronics.
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Old 02-06-2006, 12:23 PM   #2
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I just can't imagine any resemblance between adhesive and a golfball ...
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I just can't imagine any resemblance between adhesive and a golfball ...
maybe they meant something like a golfball-sized booger that sticks to anything ...
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Think of the impact- it could be a fairly solid object that's sticky, that when propelled from a gun, hits the car hard enough to stick.
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Intelligence being used in high-speed chases? That's a change.
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I just can't imagine any resemblance between adhesive and a golfball ...
Yeah they went above and beyond and dimpled it for maximum aerodynamic performance.
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