Delaware Cops May Use Audio Sensors to Track Gunfire

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306021,00.html ^

[cool2007]

WILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware police are looking into using a new device to help track gunfire. The device is known as ShotSpotter and can locate gunfire in seconds through the use of audio sensors.

[PetroniusMaximus]

One word.

Silencers.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Tracking gunfire does not seem like something that would be too difficult.

[pepsionice]

Maybe I was hanging out in the wrong part of Delaware...but the three occasions I was up there for a day or two...I don’t remember that much (if any) gunfire. Or am I missing something here....like Delaware is a giant shooting gallery after dark?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’ve lived in Dover, Delaware nearly all my life. A co-worker who had come from South Carolina asked me once where the bad part of the city was. “New Jersey,” I replied.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Somebody needs to set up an indoor range.

Can you imagine the reaction the first day all of the customers open up on the targets?!

[Recon Dad]

Possibly they could bounce the echo off Joe Biden’s head, then at least it would be good for something.

[infidel29]

Hmmm... cameras on America's streets to help "monitor the safety of our streets."

Audio sensors to "track gunfire"

All for your safety of course. What's next, smoke detectors OUTSIDE buildings, "for your health"?

George Orwell, paging Mr. Orwell... 1984 is calling.

[pnh102]

Maybe I was hanging out in the wrong part of Delaware.

Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware. It is in the northern tip of the state, far from any of the beaches or farmland of the middle and southern part of the state.

[varyouga]

Combine cameras with audio sensors to point at and record shootings.

Cameras will be everywhere in public eventually. In higher resolution than they are today. There will be no such thing as a crime in public with no witness.

[TalBlack]

“Tracking gunfire does not seem like something that would be too difficult.”

It isn’t. At least ten years ago I saw a computer that could track machine gun fire from multiple nests simultaneously while giving each bullet trajectory a different color representation

[Dutch Boy]

Does that work in real life or just in the demos? Have heard that places that use this technology haven’t solved many crimes because of it. I have heard the same about the street cameras in England.

I don’t if that is accurate information or if it is hearsay.

[TalBlack]

As far as I could tell the technology worked fine. It’s a matter of getting to the spot before the shooter scrams.It was thought to be most useful in situations where drones or loitering units could return fire. Secondarily it would tend to make capturing an asassin of the president more assured. If for instance this gizmo was at Dallas in ‘63 it would have forestalled a lot of the Oswald didn’t do it sort of thing. (Not much comfort to Kennedy,I’d imagine)

[Dutch Boy]

Do you know where this is being used successfully? I am a techno-geek and like to match lab successes with real world successes. I have worked on several projects at work that seemed flawless until some customer uses it in a way that no one predicted and uncovered flaws. Talk about a humbling experience.

[TalBlack]

“Do you know where this is being used successfully? “

I would guess the US military. Any other application really is pointless since there is no real ability to respond to the info the machine provides. It was demoed live on tV and it tracked high rate machine gun fire easily. A 50 plotting it’s aim from data supplied by this program would be a nightmare on any battle field.