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Originally Posted by BrinChi
I don't see any reason why a Shotspotter technology couldn't work and be helpful, even if the current implementation doesn't work today. I'd be curious if the issue is differentiating fireworks vs gunshot, but I assume that's where analysis of the soundwave should be far more accurate than the human ear. And similar to satellite geolocation, if there are enough Shotspotter mics then they should be able to triangulate and pinpoint where the shots are coming from. This would be far better than relying on 911 calls; every couple months in the summer we wake up to a series of gunshots at 4am but feel helpless because the shots could be coming from any direction. Quarter mile radius? half mile radius? no fucking clue. Hoping that 911 uses the location of various reports to identify a general region where the shots may have come from, which is why we bother to call it in, but it seems doubtful they do anything even that sophisticated.
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The Shotspotter tech works quite well honestly. I’ve seen it personally in action on the streets three separate times for shooting incidents. I’ve never seen a response for fireworks.
The issue is that criminals firing into the air or in alleys, or doing drive bys against property for fun with no witnesses or victims around are extremely common.
The missing ballistic evidence turns up a year later lodged in someone’s garage half a mile away long after the police report had been filed for “no evidence found.”
911 calls are 100 times more useless because no human can pinpoint the exact location of shots fired.
It’s not so much that Shotspotter reduces crime by itself, so much as it saves lives by locating victims who are bleeding out in an alley unnoticed by witnesses.
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