RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A thump, screeching tires, and a stop.
That’s the future of bringing pursuits to an end – or preventing them altogether – and it’s all thanks to a new tool being rolled out by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
The department said it began testing the Grappler system last March. It was the first agency in the state to use it. In the months since, it has been deployed 40 times. In some cases, it’s been used to bring pursuits to an end. In others, it’s been preemptively deployed to prevent suspects from running in the first place…