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Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology
theodp writes "After a week that saw more than 40 people shot and at least 4 killed, Chicago politicians and police are at odds on whether to implement ShotSpotter, a camera and acoustic sensor-based gunshot-location system that is designed to pinpoint a shooter's location within seconds. The Chicago Police Department opposes such a move, saying ShotSpotter wasn't reliable in an earlier trial and — at $250,000 for a square mile of coverage — is too expensive. The company says the system has dramatically lowered crime rates in cities across the country. ShotSpotter is currently deployed in two countries and 51 US cities and counties."
Unenforced legislation is no different from no legislation. If that reasonable law were enforced, then all of these people wouldn't be dead.
Meanwhile, France and the UK and most of continental Europe do enforce gun control laws, and have much lower murder rates. But don't bother with the facts. Use your biases to pretend that you already know the truth.
Dude: You come here quoting Chomsky and expect to be taken seriously? C'mon...!
Another hugely expensive technology to not look into the real problem of firearms ubiquity in US ?
Anybody thinking about limiting the availability of firearms rather than attempting to pinpoint shooters ?
Appart from that I can't start to imagine how such a prop could ever cost 250K per square mile. I'm pretty sure 2/3 microphones per block + a cleverly hacked strongarm could achieve the same goal.
Read my other post on the very real, and very strict guns laws in Switzerland.
Denmark's homicide rate is per 100,000 per year is .88
The US homicide rate is 5.4
Gun control laws do absolutely nothing to stem violence, a fact that anti-gun people tend to ignore.
You're quite simply full of shit.
They're trying to cover their ass, after lying the first time. That's the number Mexico gives, and the number the ATF gives. Factcheck throws up their hands and claims that "no one can no what the number is." Everyone else, except for Fox's failure at basic math, agrees with the number.
And you're right, I shouldn't have called you a racist. You're probably just ignorant. The two tend to go hand in hand.