CBS New YorkNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new high-tech pilot program that will help the NYPD determine where shots are fired, even if no one calls 911.
The technology is called Shot Spotter and it works like a GPS triangulation system, using antennas and coordinates to identify the location and direction the gunfire comes from, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.
NYPD spokesman Steve Davis said the information is relayed to the real time crime center in police headquarters, which will then be able to disseminate the location to police officers in the field.
Davis said the Shot Spotter is designed to address shootings and resulting fatalities, both of which are on the rise this year compared to last year. The technology will also help get police to the scene of shootings faster than ever before.
The pilot program was set up in 7 Bronx precincts and 10 Brooklyn precincts that have seen an uptick in gun violence.
As 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported, the NYPD actually expects the number of shootings in the city to go up.
Based on statistics in other cities where it’s already in use, 75 percent of shootings that occur are not reported to 911.
Jesse Tisch, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of information and technology, said within an hour of being activated in the Bronx on Monday, shots were recorded.
“That shooting occurred at 1:12 hours at 228 West Tremont Ave. The shot count there was three. There were no 911 calls associated with it,” Tisch said.
The Shot Spotter system will be activated in Brooklyn next week.
Silent revolvers??
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-commandos-hunted-the-viet-cong-with-silent-revolvers-8f6cc5cfc731
Not sure what this is intended to do. Pigs will get a report of shots fired, take 20 minutes to finish their donuts, and then maybe cruise on by to see what’s happening.
I would say have everyone get bunches of firecrackers and lite em off to overload the shot spotter system but then the SWAT commies would start shooting people.
“They had firecrackers! We feared for our lives!”
I wonder how well this system will work around the fourth of July.
“I wonder how well this system will work around the fourth of July.”
Not very well. LOL 😉
“Between 2005 and 2013, the system recorded 39,000 shots in the nation’s capital, much more gunfire than was reported to the police. Because so many shooting incidents go unreported, ShotSpotter’s sensors will likely result in an increase in the number of shootings in the city, if only on paper. The system is also supposed to distinguish gunshots from fireworks — although it is often difficult. D.C.’s system logs far more instances of gunfire on the Fourth of July and New Year’s.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/nypd-testing-gunfire-detection-system.html
The Washington DC report that they referred to:
“A Washington Post analysis found that distinguishing gunshots from pyrotechnics in the District can be difficult.
ShotSpotter reported gunshots from the source of the Cherry Blossom Festival fireworks and from ballgames at Nationals Park, including three season home openers and two playoff games, where fireworks were used.
About a third of detected gunshot incidents in the city happen on New Year’s Eve or around July 4. Officials explain the high rate as celebratory gunfire”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/dc-shot-spotter/
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20110702/News/107020331
Hi Angel. “celebratory gunfire”…lol.
I wonder if anyone would think to do a correlation study about “celebratory gunfire” incidents and the amount of people who actually showed up at hospitals with bullet wounds.
Naaaa they wouldn’t bother doing that. Just keep on spending that free tax money on a half assed shot spotter system.