ShotSpotter

[Spook]

Very interesting technology that I had not heard of before.

Sniper Detectors Coming To America's Heartland | Fox News

[Spook]

Suparice - Sorry, your post had not appeared yet when I started composing my thread.

[Dolomite_supafly]

It has been in use for a long time. I know when I was in Bosnia in 1995-1996 they were testing a system that did the same thing. It could give you a distance and direction from one of the three or more sensors.

It is pretty amazing stuff but in reality it rarely catches people commiting a crime. I seem to recall a study that it only caught a few criminals a year at the cost of the multi million dollar system itself as well as a hefty cost of running it. How often is a criminal going to shoot a gun then wait around? What woudl likely have to happen is a series of cameras to monitor but that will be met with strong opposition.

Dolomite

[mcurrier]

Merge threads -

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/general-off-topic/66747-acoustic-gunfire-monitoring.html

[c.a.willard]

With a cost of 60,000 per square mile (if the article is accurate), its definately cool tech and variants of it have been put for a while now but wow 60,000 a square mile. For that kind of money how many more peace officers could you put on the street and what would the impct of that be on gun crimes.

[Garufa]

...but wow 60,000 a square mile. For that kind of money how many more peace officers could you put on the street ....

Assumming that is the yearly cost maybe 1.5 - 2 1st year officers.

Since I am initially skeptical of many things like this I'm gonna go ahead and say this type of Big Brother, high-end military technology does not belong in the hands of locals.

Edited December 22, 2011 by Garufa

[c.a.willard]

lets just say one officer for every 3 square miles to be on the safe side. Cost of equipping and shifts and all that. I think id rather have an additional officer in the area than a microphone picking up gunshots. That officer isnt limited to just recording one very specific type of crime. Im sure its a great tool but its throwing a lot of money to solve one specific issue when you can spend the same a amount to have significantly reduced response times and incresed community presence.