Summary: It appears that nearly every day on average, someone is killed in a high-speed police chase, and police departments across the country are looking for safer ways to nab suspects on the run. Now, more than 50 agencies are using a system invented by a company called StarChase, reports CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds. "We've had zero fatalities, zero injuries, zero property damage and zero liability," StarChase president Trevor Fischbach said. This is how it works: Compressed air units are installed in the grill of police cruisers, containing two four-and-a-half inch projectiles packed with GPS satellite trackers and coated with enough adhesive to make them stick to a fleeing vehicle. When a suspect runs from a traffic stop, an officer can fire the projectiles at the suspect's car and basically relax -- no need for sirens or lights or 90 mph chases that could kill people. Computers read the GPS signal and track the vehicle in question.
Analysis: I think that this system will work out so much better. This will most likely prevent future innocent accidents like the ones in the past. Think about it, if we would have never accepted slavery we wouldn't have had all the stuff we did. So, if we prevent something like this now, it will save us in the future.
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