Bob Hubbard
05-13-2009, 12:22 AM
Technology on the horizon to prevent officers from being dragged (http://positiveleo.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/technology-on-the-horizon-to-prevent-officers-from-being-dragged/)
“When you reach into someone’s car, you’re entering their turf,” said Ed Nowicki, executive director of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association in Wisconsin.
“You don’t want a fair fight, you want an unfair fight,” he said. “You want to get them out of their turf as fast as you can.”
Research is under way that could give officers another option.
Military scientists and private labs in California and Michigan are developing “directed energy” beams that could be aimed at a vehicle and fry its circuitry.
“Getting the right frequencies in the right amounts to disable the target car, and not yours – that’s the challenge,” said Sgt. Brian Muller, who heads the Less-Lethal Technology Exploration Project at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The department has teamed up with a nearby aerospace lab to study the technology, which Muller characterized as emerging.
“When you reach into someone’s car, you’re entering their turf,” said Ed Nowicki, executive director of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association in Wisconsin.
“You don’t want a fair fight, you want an unfair fight,” he said. “You want to get them out of their turf as fast as you can.”
Research is under way that could give officers another option.
Military scientists and private labs in California and Michigan are developing “directed energy” beams that could be aimed at a vehicle and fry its circuitry.
“Getting the right frequencies in the right amounts to disable the target car, and not yours – that’s the challenge,” said Sgt. Brian Muller, who heads the Less-Lethal Technology Exploration Project at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The department has teamed up with a nearby aerospace lab to study the technology, which Muller characterized as emerging.