{"id":6155,"date":"2013-10-13T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2013-10-13T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:48:39","slug":"st-petersburg-police-to-test-starchase-pursuit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6155","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Police to Test StarChase Pursuit System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/starchase-470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6156\" alt=\"starchase-470\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/starchase-470.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/starchase-470.jpg 470w, https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/starchase-470-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a>About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article about the <a title=\"StarChase Pursuit Management System\" href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=1366\" target=\"_blank\">StarChase Pursuit Management System<\/a>.\u00a0 StarChase fires a GPS loaded projectile at a fleeing vehicle.\u00a0 Once the projectile is attached, it allows the police to back off the pursuit and electronically follow the vehicle in hopes of a less volatile ending.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Melanie Bevans has said that the St. Petersburg Police will be trying out the StarChase technology because, &#8220;This is something that we have found that we think will make (pursuits) just a little less dangerous.&#8221;\u00a0 Police chases resulted in 17 crashes in 2012 for the St. Petersburg Police.\u00a0 St. Pete will be the first police agency in Florida to evaluate StarChase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCAZPDS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6161\" alt=\"StarChase Press Conference\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCAZPDS.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCAZPDS.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCAZPDS-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCAZPDS-1024x625.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Bevan stated, &#8220;We&#8217;re in the evaluation stage.\u00a0 We are willing at the police department to try something new.\u00a0 If it works, we are willing to add a new and valuable tool to our tool chest.\u00a0 If it doesn&#8217;t, then we go back and try something better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article about the StarChase Pursuit Management System.\u00a0 StarChase fires a GPS loaded projectile at a fleeing vehicle.\u00a0 Once the projectile is attached, it allows the police to back off the pursuit and electronically follow the vehicle in hopes of a less volatile ending. Assistant Chief Melanie Bevans has said that the St. Petersburg Police will be trying out the StarChase technology because, &#8220;This is something that we have found that we think will make (pursuits) just a little less dangerous.&#8221;\u00a0 Police chases resulted in 17 crashes in 2012 for the St. Petersburg Police.\u00a0 St. Pete will be the first police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,306],"tags":[828,785,81,252],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-safety","category-technology","tag-officer-safety","tag-st-petersburg-po","tag-st-petersburg-police","tag-starchase-pursuit-management-system"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-1Bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}