someone was watching a lot of movies, and decided to go into production on trackers that cops can shoot your vehicle with, so they don't have to chase it... they just get that tracker on your vehicle, and GPS tracking does the rest

After an officer fires a sticky GPS tracking dart onto the suspect’s fleeing vehicle, police can track vehicles in real time without staying in an active pursuit.

It works by launching a GPS-tracked object using compressed air from the grill of the police car

Then police can back off the pursuit and use the GPS tracker to locate where the vehicle ends up before apprehending the suspect.

https://kmph.com/news/local/no-pursuit-needed-officers-can-now-tag-and-track-getaway-cars-with-gps-darts

https://www.federalwaymirror.com/2023/06/10/federal-way-police-department-tries-out-new-car-tracking-technology/

This may be a result of state laws that restrict when police can engage in a high-speed pursuit