{"id":2385,"date":"2016-11-05T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2016-11-05T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:58:37","slug":"the-grappler-stops-speeding-getaway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/05\/the-grappler-stops-speeding-getaway-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grappler Stops Speeding Getaway Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><video style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><source src=\"http:\/\/brightcove04.brightcove.com\/34\/4221396001\/201611\/1041\/4221396001_5197918801001_5197898541001.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><\/video><\/p>\n<p>This is the new weapon in the fight against crime that could help police round up speeding suspects in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the Grappler &#8211; the latest solution to bringing high speed car chases to a quick and painless end.<\/p>\n<p>Deploying a heavy duty nylon net from the front of pursuing police vehicle , the Grappler wraps around the suspects&#8217; rear tyre and snags the axle.<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds the car is disabled, and officers can then release the tether connecting them to the suspect vehicle, allowing them to stop a safe distance away.<\/p>\n<p>The ingenious device was invented by Arizona resident Leonard Stock and, like all good Eureka moments, came to him unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<p>Having watched a late night programme on high speed police chases, Stock said he awake at 3am with the idea fully formed.<\/p>\n<p>He told Fox 10: &#8220;The conclusion of one of the chases was an innocent motorist getting t-boned and I went to sleep that night just so aggravated that this was happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I woke up at 3:00 in the morning just suddenly and this was the first thought I had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The options right now are getting in front of a suspect vehicle to deploy tire spikes or using the pit manoeuvre, or some type of smash up derby style process to stop a vehicle, where the officer many times is pinned against a suspect vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken Stock eight years of research to get the Grappler ready to market to police forces, but early tests have impressed law enforcers.<\/p>\n<p>Lon Bartel, President of the Peoria Police Officers Association, described the Grappler as &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and added: &#8220;If that thing holds up the way it appears it&#8217;s going to, it&#8217;s a huge advantage for law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This is the new weapon in the fight against crime that could help police round up speeding suspects in a matter of seconds. Introducing the Grappler &#8211; the latest solution to bringing high speed car <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/05\/the-grappler-stops-speeding-getaway-cars\/\" title=\"The Grappler Stops Speeding Getaway Cars\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1523,1522,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-2385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-car-chase","10":"tag-grappler","11":"tag-weapon","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}