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Gunshot Tracking Cameras to be Deployed in LA

Posted by samzenpus on from the mixed-senses dept.

apok04 writes "Get out your tinfoil hats (and ski masks). A USC engineer uses his expertise with nerve cells to create a surveillance system that can recognize the sound of a nearby gunshot - and identify the shooter. In a unique pilot program, L.A. and Chicago will deploy test units in high-crime areas. The creator emphasizes that the system cannot recognize voices or words, but his previous research into speech recognition systems suggests otherwise."

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  1. Re:Seems a great idea by ratamacue · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why?

    Because when government spies on innocent people, it adopts the principle of guilty before proven innocent. This principle is immoral, corrupt, unjust, and backwards.

    Under a just system of law, individuals are innocent until proven guilty.

  2. Re:Response Time by Delirium+21 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He's probably just one of those Politically Correct, feminized-types who's jumped on the bandwagon of alternating between using "he" and "she" in order to appear less "sexist".

    And this moron is probably one of those neoconservative, homophobic, God-and-country types that think 95% of the world is wrong. I bet she's even more to the right than Genghis Khan.
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