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Even before O. J.'s run for the border, LA newscasts preempted regularly scheduled programming to bring the latest high-speed police pursuit. The chases are so popular that LAPD detective Ken Kuwahara launched PursuitWatch Network (www.pursuitwatch.com), a service that pages you when there's live televised rubber-burning action. In three months, his network has spotted eight broadcasts of car chases. And 400 subscribers are paying around $2 a month for the alerts. Of course, there is overhead: Kuwahara pays a $100 bounty to the first subscriber who calls with news of a pursuit in progress. The viewers? Many are fellow police officers, says Kuwahara, who "like watching pursuits in their spare time."
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