The Second Avenue Subway in NYC was proposed in 1929, began tunnelling in 1972, then stopped in 1975, restarted in 2007. You can see pictures of the tunnel here:
I never read anything about corruption regarding ShotSpotter, nor did I find any mentions in news archives.
The article I found just mentions that there was significant debate in Redwood City before buying the system from Trilon for $85K. "Opponents, however, claim it is a boondoggle and that the money could be better spent elsewhere, such as on hiring more police officers." (SFChronicle, 3/18/97, "Redwood City Endorses Gunshot Locator System")
The report compared Alliant's SECURES system in Dallas to Trilon's ShotSpotter system in Redwood City.
It sounds like they had a lot of fun with this test in RWC:
Of the 31 field trial events, 8 tested
the MP5 assault rifle, 13 tested
the.38 caliber pistol rounds, and
10 tested the 12 gauge shotgun. The
technology annunciated shotgun tests
at the highest rate (90 percent), followed
by pistol tests (77 percent), and
the MP5 assault rifle (63 percent).
Overall, the ShotSpotter technology
annunciated nearly 80 percent of the
test shots (true positives) and failed
to annunciate random gunfire events
about 20 percent of the time (false
negatives).
Dallas chose not to allow the firing of blank rounds on random street corners:
The [Redwood City] police department
approved the firing of test blanks under
controlled conditions to measure
the performance of the technology in
June 1997. Similar permissions were
not granted during the field test of the
SECURES system in Dallas.
If you're wondering why Redwood City would be picked, keep in mind that neighboring East Palo Alto had the highest per capita murder rate in the country after a
string of drug murders in 1992. (The homicide rate is lower now.)
The NIJ report page is pretty entertaining reading:
Keep in mind that elderly demented people do wander away, causing serious family heartbreak.
Every time I ride the subway I see Missing posters for someone's mother or father that went out the back door and into the neighborhood, somewhere. Some families don't have the resources to watch over their old ones 24/7.
This chip could help reunite demented patients with their families before they end up hurt or dead.
Firefox has done this since forever. Right now, I get "gmail.google.com" before "gamespot.com", because the primary heuristic is visit count.
Both Mozilla and Firefox do the same thing, although the autocomplete implementation for each is separate.
Bug 78270 discusses the algorithm; this was fixed before Firefox was ever released. It was inspired in part because IE appears to use a similar algorithm.
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http://www.thelaunchbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/contract-one-nearly-done.html
Picture of TBM
Keep in mind these pictures are taken from several feet below the active traffic on Second Avenue.
I never read anything about corruption regarding ShotSpotter, nor did I find any mentions in news archives.
The article I found just mentions that there was significant debate in Redwood City before buying the system from Trilon for $85K. "Opponents, however, claim it is a boondoggle and that the money could be better spent elsewhere, such as on hiring more police officers." (SFChronicle, 3/18/97, "Redwood City Endorses Gunshot Locator System")
The National Institute of Justice funded a study of the ShotSpotter system in Redwood City and Dallas.
The December 1999 report can be found on the NIJ website:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/179274.pdf
The report compared Alliant's SECURES system in Dallas to Trilon's ShotSpotter system in Redwood City.
It sounds like they had a lot of fun with this test in RWC:
Dallas chose not to allow the firing of blank rounds on random street corners:
If you're wondering why Redwood City would be picked, keep in mind that neighboring East Palo Alto had the highest per capita murder rate in the country after a string of drug murders in 1992. (The homicide rate is lower now.)
The NIJ report page is pretty entertaining reading:
Keep in mind that elderly demented people do wander away, causing serious family heartbreak.
Every time I ride the subway I see Missing posters for someone's mother or father that went out the back door and into the neighborhood, somewhere. Some families don't have the resources to watch over their old ones 24/7.
This chip could help reunite demented patients with their families before they end up hurt or dead.
Firefox has done this since forever. Right now, I get "gmail.google.com" before "gamespot.com", because the primary heuristic is visit count.
Both Mozilla and Firefox do the same thing, although the autocomplete implementation for each is separate.
Bug 78270 discusses the algorithm; this was fixed before Firefox was ever released. It was inspired in part because IE appears to use a similar algorithm.