US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System

An anonymous reader writes: A school in Methuen, Massachusetts has demonstrated the first installation of an automated detection system for active gunmen. Sensors placed throughout the building are activated by the sounds of gunfire. The sensors relay data on the shooter's real-time location directly to police, who can then track and subdue their target. The system was developed for the military to detect the location of enemy fire. It will cost school districts between $20,000 and $100,000 to equip each school with the gunfire-detecting sensors. Methuen's police chief said, "It's amazing, the short, split-second amount of time from identification of the shot to transmission of the message. It changes the whole game. Without that shot detection system, we wouldn't know what was going on in the school ... Valuable, valuable time can be lost. Unfortunately, with school crisis situations, it's about mitigating loss."

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meanwhile in the real world

[ihtoit]

...police still take 45 minutes to arrive during which time thirty kids get shot to shit and a teacher hides in a closet.

fuck this high tech solution bullshit, just fucking arm the teachers with a "If you're not meant to be here you WILL GET SHOT" policy.

Spree shooters aren't polite. They will not wait for the po-pos to arrive to negotiate, they're running through a school, with weapons, and with intent. The sooner they are STOPPED permanently the better it will be for EVERYBODY.