Cops’ latest tool in high-speed chases: GPS Projectiles

CBS News

MILWAUKEE — 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.