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Hot take, but I actually think this is a good tool. Triangulating gun fire is pretty useful.
I am once again asking for proper police training and discipline. Even if the kid was actually shooting a gun in his backyard, they never should have opened fire.
ShotSpotter is inaccurate and unreliable. The amount of reflections you get in an urban environment make it very difficult to triangulate the source of a sound. It is falsely triggered by many sounds that are not gunshots such as fireworks and vehicles backfiring. Also, ShotSpotter costs a ridiculous amount of money that could be better spent on more police training and more patrols.
These are good point.
Municipal government really shouldn't be signing the city up for expensive bullshit when there's so many basics to take care of...
I hate this kind of surveillance.
But if it's used in supplement to an actual report or as part of an investigation of a crime identified or reported in another manner, I can see some use to it.
But as an initial reason to go look into a possible shooting, I disagree with it entirely. If it were used as a means to send potential medical aid to a location, it could be also be beneficial. But sending law enforcement is the wrong response, imo. We would need to rework our first responder system though and stop sending police to every fucking thing.
I absolutely agree that it's being used in a terrible way, I just think it's valuable to get a relatively precise location when deploying the first response - so I can accept the development of such a technology