LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases

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LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases
By Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer
LA Times, via Huffington Post
Feb 3, 2006

"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

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bratton3feb03,0,4831260.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=morenews