Tanner Botts
3/24/2017
New Technology Aimed at Preventing Dangerous Police Puruits
The article I read was “New technology aimed at preventing dangerous police pursuits” by Jim Madalinsky. This article is about a new piece of technology called the StarChase that is attached to police cars and used to track cars while in pursuit. The StarChase uses a compressed air-launcher, a laser and GPS tracker to tag fleeing suspects and their vehicle. What this allows the deputy to do and stop pursuing after the vehicle has been tagged and once the vehicle stops they can go find them. We haven’t learned about GPS tracking but this is a very cool new piece of technology the police force can put to use to help keep communities safe. Taking out the pursuit part of a pursuit can really minimize the dangers for the deputy, suspect, and innocent bystanders. One interesting fact I learned from the article is the just one StarChase costs about $5,000 and the GPS is about $250 each.
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