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  • ShotSpotter

    Anybody know if ShotSpotter is good? From an NYPD press release:

    This is one of more than 30 firearms that have been recovered since the inception of the ShotSpotter program, back in March of this year.

    Three guns a month doesn’t seem like so many. But then to get 30 guns off the streets, back in the old stop-and-frisk would have meant stopping 26,370 people!

    How does ShotSpotter work in practice? Is a response mandatory or discretionary? What about false positives?

  • New Tool for Police Officers

    Using tech and smart phones to help police. This is great, right? I can’t think of downside. Am I missing something? Kudos to the NYPD.

  • Behave! (Big Brother is Watching)

    I was interviewed by Videosurveillance.com about my thoughts on video surveillance’s effect on crime. I’m skeptical. (But impressed that a company such as theirs is willing to print my unadulterated skepticism.)

    Cameras are no substitute of cops. 

  • CopCams in San Jose

    To record interactions with the public. The storyin the Mercury News.