To the editor: So, this new toy goes to value us taxpayers no less than $5,000 per unit (“Police assume this contraption can convey high-speed chases to an finish,” Might 7). Police departments are skeptical about its effectiveness, and the producer “claims” an 86% success price, 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 attempting to maneuver inside 5 toes of a fleeing, swerving automotive at 100 mph or sooner, and looking for that deploy button whereas additionally watching the highway at that pace. All that whereas attempting to not kill bystanders or different drivers within the course of.
This sounds precisely just like the form of costly boondoggle that retains us throwing nearly all 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 probably nothing in any respect.
Simply cease that insanity to start with.
Mickey Fielding, Baldwin Hills
