ORIGINAL: Lawman165

The down side to Lojack is the fact that not every police car has the device. I work for Houston PD and i would guess only 10-20 % of the cars have the receivers. Couple that with the fact that not all of the cars are out there all the time. If my police car is a Lojack unit and I dont work that day it sits in the parking lot. On top of that you have to be in a certain range for the receiver to pickup. It is a decent system that I have seen work first hand but it needs to be improved on IMHO. A system like Onstar gives exact locations within about 20 seconds. They communicate directly with our dispatch and tell us exactly where the car is going within the hundred block of the street. Takes alot of the guesswork out of it when officers are trying to get there quick. Lojack just beepsand has a directional arrow in the general direction of the stolen car. I know Onstar is a GM partnered product but I am sure the other service providers mentioned have similar features.