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]

Lol, when every US cop show has more shooting in the intro than an entire series of a comparable BBC show of much better quality, and you keep shooting each other at worlds highest rates, it seems spot on to me.

This is disingenuous as well as plain wrong.

If you take out the stats for inner-city drug-gang-related firearm murders/shootings in the top-six largest US cities with the strictest, most onerous anti-gun laws, the US is right in the middle of international gun crime/murder stats. Gang activity is responsible for about 48% of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90% in some. 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 US "war on some drugs" is overwhelmingly the most responsible for violent crime including gun violence, aggravated by government increasingly restricting the ability for law-abiding and peaceful potential victims to legally possess and carry firearms for protection, for the daily deluge of tragic drug-financed gang-related deaths in the US and the corresponding high gun-crime rates in those inner cities that push the national numbers up.

It's much easier for US politicians, as it shifts blame and attention away from their power-grabbing "war on some drugs" (and increasingly the "war on 'terrism'") and attacks on civil rights across the board, and works in favor of ever-more-intrusive and abusive government control of the people if privately-owned firearms are vilified and owners demonized instead of addressing the true causes which the government is largely responsible for in the first place.

Don't listen to what they say. It's all just propaganda and pandering to manipulate the ignorant. gullible, apathetic, & plain stupid.

Watch carefully what they do and what the results are. Otherwise, you may just find yourself in a Pink Floyd song.

"Listen son, said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside." - "Us And Them" - Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Strat

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

[flyneye]

Not likely, very few U.S. cops would be ABLE to utilize these and probably WON'T.
1. Cops have a hard time expending the expense of regular ammo and complain of shortages.
2. Having a bullet ready for GPS duty at all times means having a spare pistol on your belt. What, did you think it went in with the others? You gonna shoot all your other ammo till you reach the GPS bullet?
3. $500, get the fuck outa here. Nobody cares that much except the BBC who suckered you all into looking at ads over their vaporware story anyway.
4. This won't go to cops, FBI and other government sh*tsticks will be issued them in large amounts, because, the people paid for them, the administration O.K.ed them, then Congress funds it. Just like all the other crap. State and local cops get whatever the "state' or county pays for, keep on wishin'.
5. This is a bad idea, watch it die.