When a policeman has only his gun to frustrate the escape of a criminal, the results may be unnecessarily fatal. If the paint gun used in military games was available, the police could clearly mark an escaping criminal or his vehicle so that when backup arrived the criminal could be pursued with less than summary execution. If, in addition, an RFID could be shot in a glue mass to adhere to the criminals clothes or vehicle, thereby making tracing the perpetrator an easier task. The same technique could be used in following a wild animal for biological surveys.
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RFIDs don't work too far. A couple meters at best.
A more logical Idea would be a paintball gun, or a net gun.
This is a great idea, especially if you could find a way to tag a vehicle. Why create unnecessary danger to the public with a high-speed chase if you can just track and ambush the fugitive vehicle?
In Ireland we have an unarmed police force. Our crime rate is one of the lowest in the world beaten only by sweden and Japan two other nations with no relience on an armed response to crime.
Bullets are generally very poor at solving crimes. Addmittedly if an officer is presented with a life threatening situation there are few course of action left but to reply in kind.
However most Gun crimes are carried out by those with a legal record which predates their interest in carrying a gun.
Perhaps agreeing with the criminal whilst they are in custody that a transmitter (GPS) along with other technologies be introduced into their body surgically and in return they can literally walk from their sentence would be better.
This would :
A. Lower the cost of keeping people in prison which is spiralling.
B. Ensure that we have evidence if the ciminal re-offfends
C. Ensure that others who would normally carry out crimes with this individual now give them a WIDE BERTH as being in their presence means that they too are being watched.
D. It would also lower re-offence to an all time low. Who would be stupid enough to commit a crim on their own when there is a 100% chance of both capture and prison for the action.
the US military is working on a "headache" gun that would render an assailant with a crushing headache using some type of audio sound wave much like microwaves. Thi would be nonlethal but very effective, it would also work on airliners against potential hijackers as the aircraft would not be in jeapordy of stray bullets.
"...Who would be stupid enough to commit a crim on their own when there is a 100% chance of both capture and prison for the action."
It's a demonstrable fact, jails are not really overflowing with smart people, mostly it's the ones who were stupid enough to get caught, or, in many cases, stupid enough to commit the crime in the first place.
This is not to say that there aren't some really brilliant people in jail, but the majority are simply too stupid to know how to behave.
Have you been to prison, beaugrand? While intelligence could be a major factor, painting jails as the domain of the dumb seems ingenuous. (yeah, I had to look it up again) Point being, I'd look more into personality. We all want things—why do criminals feel entitled to their means?
As for RFIDs, there's no guarantee the tag will stay with a perp. The tech is also kind of unnecessary: invisible fluorescent paint would be just as effective, though with the same caveat. We're moving on to things like plastic/rubber bullets, ring airfoils, beanbag guns, flashbang grenades, capsaicin, sonic disruptors, adhesive foams, and whatnot.
If you build it they will come give a person a lethal weapon to use to enforce his will and he WILL use it. given a non-lethal weapon HE.SHE will use it as well if it works. I like the sound wave idea as well as the paint/glue idea. I dislike the enforcement of laws as a choice of profession since it usually points to a controlling, aggressive person with issues of his/her own. The motivation to prove ones worth by the submission of others to one's will. I am totally against the taking of life LEGALLY or illegally -- the death penalty is murder and Murder is murder any way you spell it.
If an RFID has too limited a range for detection and pursuit there are alternatives that do work at greater distances. A small battery powered radio signal transmitter can be miniaturized for more effective range detection and triangulation antennas can locate a fleeing criminal with precision.
A police department in the US (Los Angeles if I'm not mistaken) is implementing something like this for their squad cars- They have an airgun which shoots miniature GPS trackers onto fleeing cars, allowing the police to back off in a chase and still track the vehicle
Not a bad idea. But the better solution would be a selectable ammunition that could be shot from the same gun police carry. Foot patrolman can only carry just so much to have on-hand. See RF Projectiles