The New York Police Department cordoned off Manhattan’s Times Square this week to unveil a trio of new technologies that it will be putting into service in the near future. Among them is a Batman batracker-like device that the department says will mitigate pursuits.

The NYPD signed a roughly $20,000 temporary subscription with StarChase, the makers of the GPS tracking device, reports the New York Times. The tool can be fired out of a modified AR-15 or the front of a police cruiser. From there, the cola-can-sized tracking device sticks onto the back of a vehicle.

“What we want to do is to mitigate as many high-speed chases in the city as possible,” said New York Mayor Eric Adams.

StarChase claims that its GPS tags have been deployed more than 10,000 times and have recovered more than $150 million in assets. It says that the technology is useful during DUI checkpoints and covert operations.

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The technology could be a useful one in a highly populated city like New York. Questions have been raised in many parts of the country regarding police pursuits, which can lead to dangers for everyone involved in the chase, as well as innocent bystanders. As recently as last month, a police chase in Baltimore ended in a crash that led to a building collapsing.

That hasn’t prevented community advocates from raising concerns about the measures introduced by the NYPD. The two other technologies, a Boston Dynamics quadrupedal robot and a wheeled robot designed to send information to police, were the cause of particular criticisms.

“The NYPD is turning bad science fiction into terrible policing,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. “New York deserves real safety, not a knockoff ‘RoboCop.’”

Meanwhile, the Legal Aid Society accused Mayor Adams and the NYPD of violating the basic norms of transparency by introducing the new technology into service without offering a meaningful opportunity for citizens to raise concerns.

“The City Council passed the POST Act two years ago to address this very issue, yet the NYPD has once again failed to engage its requirements of public comment before further expanding surveillance technology,” the non-profit said, per NBC.