On: Police say GPS tag darts can eliminate need for dangerous high-speed chases

[psychlops]

Also, not chasing people eliminates the need for high-speed chases. Simply show up at their house later.

[ajsnigrutin → psychlops]

You have to know who they are, where they live, and they have to be home for this to work.

[psychlops → ajsnigrutin]

Depends on what you mean by "work". If you mean they don't catch the person fleeing, well they don't catch them half the time anyway, a quarter of the time it ends in a collision.

https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/Police_Pursuits_SB_719_%202...

They will arrest less people and avoid endangering more bystanders.