ShotSpotter uses electronic ears posted in strategic spots around the city to recognize, record, and then triangulate the position of shots fired using GPS.
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Big brother is watching... and listening
No offense, this is like six years late.
That's pretty cool, actually. Anything to help stop crime and make the city a better place to live in.
I wonder how often they pickup hammers hitting nails and cars backfiring, etc.
An Orwellian future will be met with open arms and praise.
Wonder if it can detect massive farts.
[QUOTE=MisterMooth;19571719]That's pretty cool, actually. Anything to help stop crime and make the city a better place to live in.[/QUOTE]
Yea but what if the technology becomes misused? Instead of just tracking gunshots they can begin tracking anyone and anything they want.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;19571830]they can begin tracking anyone and anything they want.[/QUOTE]
If they want to, they do it, nothing you can do. And if it actually works and reduces crime rate, I am ready to give up some privacy.
[QUOTE=johanz;19571847]If they want to, they do it, nothing you can do. And if it actually works and reduces crime rate, I am ready to give up some privacy.[/QUOTE]
Well I'm not willing to give up my privacy.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;19571859]Well I'm not willing to give up my privacy.[/QUOTE]
It's not like you ever had the right to freely use firearms within a city in the first place. I'm sorry for not being completely comfortable with you shooting bottles on your rooftop.
Besides, is it really intrusive of the government to have the ability to triangulate very loud noises? Usually when such noises occur, something bad is happening. They aren't able to track your heartbeats, or something of that sort.
Reminds me how cops tried to triangulate a bright flash with a boom that wakes up some town ever so often, turns out after using video cameras around the town to find the origin, it was just an angry old guy using magnesium explosives (probably bird bangers) to quiet his noisy neighbors.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;19571889]It's not like you ever had the right to freely use firearms within a city in the first place. I'm sorry for not being completely comfortable with you shooting bottles on your rooftop.
Besides, is it really intrusive of the government to have the ability to triangulate very loud noises? Usually when such noises occur, something bad is happening.[/QUOTE]
No, that's fine. I just don't want the technology to be used to invade my privacy. Governments often use stuff like this as a stepping stone into more intrusive measure, all in the name of reducing crime.
Why is everyone rated dumb? :v:
Also I've seen this on an old future weapons episode. It being implemented in usual city use however, I didn't.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;19571935]No, that's fine. I just don't want the technology to be used to invade my privacy. Governments often use stuff like this as a stepping stone into more intrusive measure, all in the name of reducing crime.[/QUOTE]
Move to some unadvanced country where they can't afford this technology.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;19571706]No offense, this is like six years late.[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck cares? "Hey everybody i saw this first is i cool?"
[QUOTE=yawmwen;19571830]Yea but what if the technology becomes misused? Instead of just tracking gunshots they can begin tracking anyone and anything they want.[/QUOTE]
Good luck trying to track people's actions through sound in an incredibly noisy place.
They can hear me orgasm at night, oh god!
[QUOTE=Skippy!;19571722]I wonder how often they pickup hammers hitting nails and cars backfiring, etc.[/QUOTE]
Hammers hitting nails and cars backfiring aren't as loud as a jet engine and don't have a sonic boom.
[QUOTE=Fire and Ice;19572498]Good luck trying to track people's actions through sound in an incredibly noisy place.[/QUOTE]
Contrary to what video games and movies might have convinced you, guns are really, [i]really[/i] loud. Service calibers are usually still audible out to even miles.
[QUOTE=Loen;19574388]Hammers hitting nails and cars backfiring aren't as loud as a jet engine and don't have a sonic boom.
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I'm quite sure gunshots aren't as loud as jet engine and don't have a sonic boom either.
Yeah, I saw something about these on TV the other day. The only thing they listen for is anything that sounds remotely like a gunshot. And these things are so awesome, they can even track the caliber of the gun. They have firecracker recognition, and recognition for other small explosives so they can easily distinguish between real 9-1-1 calls and calls about real gunshots. And with the triangulation of all of the electronic ears, they have pinpoint precision in where exactly the sound is coming from. Pops up on a cool little map back at the police department or wherever it is that they monitor it from. It's a pretty impressive bit of technology that could really help to save lives and keep gun crime down to a minimal.
[QUOTE=johanz;19571847]If they want to, they do it, nothing you can do. And if it actually works and reduces crime rate, I am ready to give up some privacy.[/QUOTE]
Fuck that, I cannot understand how people can ever think giving up any privacy for the government can work out, you give em an inch and they'll take a fucking mile.
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[QUOTE=johanz;19574711]I'm quite sure gunshots aren't as loud as jet engine and don't have a sonic boom either.[/QUOTE]
Most modern guns fire at speeds over 340 metres per second, which is the speed of sound, if you hit anything over that, sonic booms be praised, it has one.
[QUOTE=johanz;19574711]I'm quite sure gunshots aren't as loud as jet engine and don't have a sonic boom either.[/QUOTE]
Clearly you know nothing about guns, then.
Real life isn't a video game where gunshots are as loud as someone yelling, your average gunshot ranks at around 130 to 194 decibels depending on the caliber and barrel length, it also causes a concussion that can be felt even out to a hundred meters. A jet engine is around 140 decibels. Due to the projectile they fire exceeding right above the speed of sound in pistols and nearly twice or thrice it in rifles, it causes a sonic boom(well, more like a cracking sound) that can be heard for miles.
Ok, you win, I was wrong.
I don't understand why criminals never use suppressors and subsonic ammunition
[QUOTE=Umi-hebi;19580557]I don't understand why criminals never use suppressors and subsonic ammunition[/QUOTE]
They're criminals, they barely can afford anything more than a cheap saturday night special pistol let alone a suppressor and subsonic ammunition.
[QUOTE=Loen;19580607]They're criminals, they barely can afford anything more than a cheap saturday night special pistol let alone a suppressor and subsonic ammunition.[/QUOTE]
9mm suppressors are only $300 on the legal market, surely you can find them cheaper on the black market
[QUOTE=Umi-hebi;19580936]9mm suppressors are only $300 on the legal market, surely you can find them cheaper on the black market[/QUOTE]
Probably not.
Sure, suppressor prices wouldn't be increased by the 200 dollar tax stamp, but their availability would be low since the "black market" for your typical impoverished scumbag living off welfare at best is limited to small size dealers that might have a Glock 19 at most.
Organised crime; that's a different story. It isn't exactly common in the US though.
I remember this on some TV show on discovery or something, it was gonna be used in like LA and they were gonna program cameras to quickly turn and record the incidents.
Yes I believe I watched that over 3-4 Years ago...
Late.
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