Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet

mrspoonsi writes "The BBC reports that police in the U.S. are now using 'GPS bullets,' a device they can shoot at fleeing vehicles in order to track them. They're designed to make high-speed chases safer. The pursuing police car presses a button, a lid pops open, and a GPS bullet is fired which becomes attached to the fleeing car. The car can then be tracked from a distance in real-time without the need for a high-speed pursuit."

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Re:Typical BBC bias

[BlueStrat]

Is that "top-six largest US cities which happen to also have the strictest, most onerous anti-gun laws" or "top-six largest US cities and then screw the results so we only look at the ones with strict gun laws"?

I replied on impulse and from memory. I believe it was more like if you remove the gang-related gun violence stats from the 12 largest cities, many of which have some of the strictest & most onerous gun laws, the US averages for gun violence/deaths is somewhere in the middle of the international averages.

The point stands, however, that the "highest gun violence rates" claim against the US compared to international stats is disingenuous, misleading, and wrong.

Direct quotes from a United States Department of Justice report released by the Obama Administration in November of 2011. Link below.

âoeBlacks were disproportionately represented as both homicide victims and offenders. The victimization rate for blacks (27.8 per 100,000) was 6 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000). The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).â

âoeMales represented 77% of homicide victims and nearly 90% of offenders. The victimization rate for males (11.6 per 100,000) was 3 times higher than the rate for females (3.4 per 100,000). The offending rate for males (15.1 per 100,000) was almost 9 times higher than the rate for females (1.7 per 100,000).â

âoeApproximately a third (34%) of murder victims and almost half (49%) of the offenders were under age 25. For both victims and offenders, the rate per 100,000 peaked in the 18 to 24 year-old age group at 17.1 victims per 100,000 and 29.3 offenders per 100,000.â

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

> The vast majority of the US is in no way some sort of ultra-violent "wild west", as some who have swallowed the propaganda and are anti-2A/anti-US, try to paint the whole nation.

The majority of this "propaganda" comes from your own cop shows.

Gee, a US TV entertainment show dramatizes it's content? They're not documentaries??? /sarc

Sounds more like people not being intelligent enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality.

The propaganda I'm talking about and that I know you're well aware of despite your snark comes from the government and anti-gun groups.

Guns are like the panopticon, in that once the technology is out there neither ever will, or even can, be made to go away. The only logical action, as with the panopticon, is to make them universally available for anyone to purchase and possess who is not either underage, psychologically unstable, or a convicted criminal prohibited from owning firearms.

"An armed society is a polite society."

"An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject."

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ⦠from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable ⦠the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference â" they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - George Washington

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