Finding shooters by sound.

[walnutred]

'Shots fired at 5th and Main, deploy the armed drones".

 

[CajunBass]

Just more big brother and anything that powerful can and will eventually be misused.

Shots were fired in this area. That gives us probable cause to search you for weapons. Oh? You have a carry permit and a weapon? We'll have to take you downtown for questioning and a ballistic fingerprint and GSR swab.

Naw..."They" couldn't do that.

Could they?

 

[Chipmunk6]

Hmmm...Time to develop my
concealable bow project
Chipmunk6

 

[Bajadoc]

Parts of Los Angeles has this. It doesn't work.

The equipment is often disabled. When it works, it takes too long to get the intelligence to the field. People who shoot up the urban environment tend to not stick around. Shooters instinctively understand the tactical advantage of fire and maneuver.

 

[NYlakesider]

They had a system like that in Troy NY a few years back. They ballyhooed it as a super great thing. Even did a bunch of news broadcast with cops shooting blanks out of M1 rifles in different parts of the city to show what it could do. Within a couple years with hardly any fanfare the got rid of it.

A Troy cop I knew said it was mostly useless as it did not live up to its hype. For many reasons that city has far more than its fair share of actual shootings and guns fired. Kinda make you wonder!

 

[usm1rifle]

Minneapolis has had the "Shot-spotter" system for about ten years. They have dozens of installations and can dispatch a patrol to a hotspot in seconds. One of the facilities I used to manage for the County was Detox at 1800 Chicago Avenue, it had one of the first of these systems installed. At that time, we were ordered not to talk about it.

A lot has changed since then. With so many sites, the triangulation is now excellent - they can tell when the shot originated within about 100 feet.

Whether they dispatch a patrol depends on what part of the city you live in. There are some ares where gunshots are so common as to be ridiculous.

Glad I'm retired!

 

[Whitwabit]

Shots were fired in this area. That gives us probable cause to search you for weapons. Oh? You have a carry permit and a weapon? We'll have to take you downtown for questioning and a ballistic fingerprint and GSR swab.

Naw..."They" couldn't do that.

Could they?

The areas where these are located in my area you wouldn't want to be driving through .. if you were in a nice car/truck your probably going to be pulled over and searched for drugs ..

In Peoria I think they have mobile ones so they can move them around.

But it would be an excuse that could be used !

 

[coltle6920]

Women have this triangulation built right into their brain.How else do you think they are able to sniff out and find all those garage sales.

 

[El Biblioitecario]

The technology is at least a century old; it was used during World War I to precisely locate enemy artillery in order to initiate counterbattery fire.

 

[Johnmuratore]

The shooters probably have the "shoot, move, communicate" thing down pretty well.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Minneapolis has used a triangulation based gunfire detection system for years. My understanding is that it does a good job indicating where to go look for the bodies.

 

[curtmini14]

now that silencers are selling like hotcakes whats the point.kinda of like the t.s.a.spend 10 million on a bomb sniffing mach today and scrap it tomarrow.makes no scents.

 

[Whitwabit]

Shots fired in Peoria last night led police to the victim who was dead, shot in the head and also the arrest of 2 people accused in the shooting ..

It does work !!