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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Cops are now going to be sent to “shots fired” scenes more than ever. This means they will likely have their nervous hands on their weapons a whole lot more than ever. These are strange days.
Subscription based service at a cost of up to $60,000/square mile. So, Houston, (and not the suburbs) would cost about $38,000,000/year to use this system? Uh huh....
I haven’t lived in Houston in a long time, but I still know a lot of places to stay away from. You don’t saturate the entire city, just problem areas
True
After watching countless law enforcement TV shows. ‘Manhunter’ in particular, as they show the disposition of the case, it’s obvious the justice system is a revolving door.
Criminals with rap sheets pages long, armed robbery,assaults, illegal guns, etc. being let out on parole after serving 50% or less of a light sentence.
Then they stop reporting to the P.O. and are in the wind.
They get rearrested maybe years later and are sentenced to 90 days or some ridiculous time.
What happened to having to serve the remainder of the sentence plus time for running?
The answer is overcrowding. “We don’t have the money to build more prisons”.
BS! It’s priorities.
Politicians don’t care. They are insulated from having to live with the peons.
BS. It is in no way making the streets safer. Does it stop shootings? No? Does it apprehend criminals? No? Does it deter crime in any way? No? Then just how in the name of honest journalism can anyone claim it is making the streets safer?Thank you for posting that Thunder. I thought exactly that but this time read the thread BEFORE typing. You saved my clumsy fingers a lot of time. I'd like to add a comment...
“If You Fire a Gun, We Will Find You.”Not necessarily. They'll know where the shot was fired but not where the shooter is unless the shooter sticks around and wait for the police to show up. Remember what Robert Culp's character told Raquel Welch's character in `Hannie Caulder': shoot, then MOVE. Don't just stand there.
“Does this mean that our overlords are getting nervous about the people deciding to “vote from the rooftops” then?”
I think you are correct.
Talk about Minority Report!
Where is the ACLU? Where is the SPLC and the Black Caucus?
Are they just going to stand by and put up with this discrimination? /s
Hell around midnight in any major metro area . But places like Detroit the system will literally claim that the entire city is a war zone.
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