Question: "Chief, you said Los Angeles is the car chase capital of the world. What makes it that way?"
Answer: "There are a lot of nuts here."
With that street-cop psychology, Chief William J. Bratton unveiled Thursday a new and decidedly strange weapon in the LAPD's effort to halt high-speed pursuits.
It is an air-propelled miniature dart equipped with a global positioning device. Once fired from a patrol car, it sticks to a fleeing motorist's vehicle and emits a radio signal to police.
Bratton hailed the dart as "the big new idea" and said that if the pilot program was successful, Los Angeles' seemingly daily TV fix of police chases could be a thing of the past.
If it prevents endangering innocent bystanders, crashes, and shootings by adrenaline-and-doughnut-crazed trigger-happy buffoon cops, I'm all for it. Cops today seem to feel that letting a speeder get away from them endangers their Empire. They must 'win' at any cost.
The sporting days of outrunnin' the cops are pretty much over. I won a few and lost a few. I'm glad I got to enjoy them.
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