Cicero Cops Injured

Chasing a burglary crew:

• A four-vehicle crash during an early morning police chase in Chicago's west suburbs left five people injured, including two officers.

  The crash happened around 4:49 a.m. Monday at Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue in Cicero, according to town officials.

  "We along with other municipalities have had issues with gaming café burglaries in the early morning hours," said Cicero Police Superintendent Thomas Boyle. "That morning our department was looking for those individuals committing that type of offenses."

The police clipped the back end of a turning semi. They should be okay after some time recovering.

But this piqued our curiosity:

• As officers approached, the driver fled, jumping a curb and heading north on Cicero Avenue. Police then tried to catch up to deploy a tracking device.

  "They then attempted to get behind the vehicle to place a tracker called StarChase, and in the course of that, the collision occurred," Boyle said.

We had seen this a while back but didn't realize it was in service anywhere locally. Here's the link to the company. It looks like a GPS tracker embedded in a big sticky ball of snot that's launched at a suspect vehicle and broadcasts its location. When does CPD get to pilot this?

Next step - an embedded Taser-type device that fries in-car electronics, eliminating all pursuits?