The Seattle City Council approves GPS technology to track suspect vehicles without pursuit.
SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday approved the adoption of a new technology to track suspect criminal vehicles without the need to pursue them.
The council approved the use of StarChase GPS trackers for the Seattle Police Department in an 8-1 vote.
StarChase allows police to track the precise location of fleeing suspect vehicles. Twenty-five patrol vehicles will be equipped with the launchers, which shoot out a device that adheres to the suspect vehicle, relaying its position back to the department’s command center, which then, in turn, can be
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