To the editor: So, this new toy goes to value us taxpayers at the least $5,000 per unit (“Police think this contraption can bring high-speed chases to an end,” Might 7). Police departments are skeptical about its effectiveness, and the producer “claims” an 86% success fee, with no point out of proof for this statistic from both it or the businesses which have used the product.
I ask everybody to think about making an attempt to maneuver inside 5 toes of a fleeing, swerving automotive at 100 mph or quicker, and looking for that deploy button whereas additionally watching the street at that velocity. All that whereas making an attempt to not kill bystanders or different drivers within the course of.
This sounds precisely just like the type of costly boondoggle that retains us throwing the vast majority of our finances on the Los Angeles Police Division and California Freeway Patrol.
How about simply telling all of these hyped-up cowboys to not conduct lethal high-speed chases within the first place? It’s simply change into an insanely harmful type of sport for poisonous masculinity and advert income for TV information stations, all for property crimes, misdemeanors and presumably nothing in any respect.
Simply cease that insanity to start with.
Mickey Fielding, Baldwin Hills
