00:03we got to welcome back the sheriff of hillsborough county chad chronister
00:07welcome back to the mj morning show good morning mj so sheriff i was so excited when i heard that
00:16the hillsborough county sheriff's office bought the grappler for some of the patrol units and then
00:24i was ecstatic when i heard that the grappler was deployed sure it didn't take long i mean the news
00:32hit that you guys bought the grappler and then within i mean it was a very short amount of time
00:38that you guys use the grappler oh yeah we bought 50 of them you know we split the county into
00:44five
00:44districts so i bought 10 for each each district and you're exactly right they got they went through
00:50training in december and it wasn't a week later they were able to deploy it to someone who someone
00:55who fled from them and as you can see through the video highly effective all right so the video was
01:00just released so the reason why the story is is new to us now is that the video was just
01:05released so
01:07sheriff could you tell all of our listeners exactly what the grappler i love the name yeah what is the
01:14grappler yeah it's new technology to stop pursuits you know 34 years ago when i was a young deputy the
01:21pursuit was on and the adrenaline was flowing and it was a great time right it was like this is
01:26what i
01:26signed up for let's let's chase until the wheels came off but best practice best practices has changed
01:33we used to call people we used to call people after stolen cars and okay like here's your new car
01:38but it's
01:39worth about thirty dollars now and here's the bad news you have to come tow it away and and pay
01:44for
01:44you to get your car to impound i mean it was it was horrible exciting fun but but horrible
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