MADD is out of control!
Posted on 12/23/2011 5:34:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene.
It sounds like a scene from The Minority Report, but it's real. A new technology called ShotSpotter enables law enforcement officials to precisely and instantaneously locate shooters, and it has been quietly rolling out across America. From Long Island, N.Y., to San Francisco, Calif., more than 60 cities in the U.S. have been leveraging ShotSpotter to make their streets safer.
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The sensors feed computers that can tell firecrackers from pistols from rifles, almost to their calibers, by their acoustic signatures.
Yep. Our troops are using it in A-stan, I wonder what they think about it?
My best friend is an IT type and was working for the city of Minneapolis at the time when shot spotter came on line. He was instrumental in setting it up and coordination between police, the county sheriff and fire and rescue. It’s been in service a couple of years now and it works very well.
Lol, that’s the funny and ironic fact about MLK Boulevard in every city in America. It’s usually where all the crime is. I just don’t get how they could forget that MLK was a Republican.
You read the article!!
;-)
So what will prevent people who want to commit crime using guns, purchase guns that silencers can be attached. Always seems to be some catch twenty two.
Actually, no, but I’ve read other articles about the tech going back several years.
Place the firecracker in a piece of tubing and set it off. Drill a hole in a fence pole and put a firecracker in and set it off. Use a firecracker obtained from a fireworks unit (the kind that goes up and then goes bang, bang, ... They are about 2 inches long and about 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter. Measure the accoustics and tell me which shotgun made the sound. I’ll give you a hint that we did it as kids and it doesn’t sound like firecrackers going off.
sounds to me like a good project for hacking, maybe all the shots start coming from Public Servants Homes.
There was another article today about how many of surveillance cameras installed by the L. A. Police do not work; some not even being hooked up.
1. No police officer will go in on a shooting without backup.
2. by the time back up gets there the shooter is long gone.
Even better.
Especially with a filterless cigarette as a slow fuse as a distraction(s).
A big chunk of steel,
A drill press
And then a small amount of fabrication you have a remote controlled universal firing block, it has no effective barrel, its basic as can be and disposable, it could have just a mecanical timer to operate a spring loaded firing pin.
It fires any kind of pistol or rifle round.
And then assuming hundreds are set off simultaneously, just how would this detection system work?
Hell I could make one with a block of hardwood, a cardboard tube and a candle, oh and some fishing line and a nail.
Round block of wood is in a concrete form tube, piece of fishing line goes through two drilled holes. When a candle burns to a certain point it melts line, wood with rifle round that was stuck in a drilled hole drops onto a striker just like a mortar round.
Of course I am just spouting theoretical nonsense here.
Chris Rock on MLK Blvd. Language warning, of course.
http://www.hark.com/clips/swxzmbndkj-martin-luther-king-boulevard
LOL! Wireless speakers on every rooftop.
MADD is out of control!
“One thing that would greatly reduce crime would be an enhancement of “Stand your ground”: if a citizen with no criminal record shoots somebody with a felony record in self defense, the prosecutor must demonstrate, to the standard of “clear and convincing evidence” to the grand jury that it was NOT self-defense, otherwise the citizen is immediately “no-billed”.”
Why not add a bounty? They worked for much of America’s history.
I suspect you’d also need to know which way the sensor was facing.
Around here, the guys use these things called “ears”. Two or three of them can usually pin the noise to within a block, and by the time they get there a neighbor has called in to complain. Most of the serious shots fired calls involve a fleeing vehicle, and the crooks don’t usually do a lot of shooting while they’re making their escape. There was one guy that did that, but he had ten officers behind him and a copter overhead.
How long do they figure a sniper hangs around after taking a shot?
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