It's not too often a perp gets away from the police during a car chase, but it has been known to happen.
The White Settlement has invested into new tech that ensure that suspects never escape again.
The department will soon be deploying more than a dozen patrol units with GPS tracking darts that will enable officers to track vehicles from a distance, rather than following them up close.
Chief Christopher Cook told WFAA, "This is an investment in a smart technology that hopefully reduces liability, reduces litigation, reduces injuries and ultimately reduces fatalities."
The dart projects out of the police vehicle's ram bar, and once it's on a vehicle, It STAYS on. "Whatever it hits, it's sticking and it is not coming off," Officer Bryan Conley explained. "We can track them all day long, whenever this is stuck to the car."
Tech like this doesn't come cheap; each device runs at about $20,000. But for officers, this just means more time before they eventually recover the car, and hopefully make an arrest. "Just kinda do it on our time and not theirs," Conley said.
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