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| Homeland Security develops new portable gunshot detection system |
| 2023-01-09 |
| Good for political campaign crowds and church services. Not much good for the first ones shot. See Las Vegas concert. [FoxNews] The Department of Homeland Security said its Science and Technology Directorate has developed a portable gunshot detection system in collaboration with the Massachusetts-based Shooter Detection Systems company. The department said that the system, known as SDS Outdoor, could provide "critical information about outdoor shooting incidents almost instantaneously to first responders." The new system is reportedly an enhancement to the commercial, off-the-shelf Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System. The department said SDS Outdoor uses both the sound and flash of the gunshot to detect and validate each gunshot, in order to drastically reduce false positives. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 Operation Mussel Shoals, they will be calling in an arc light strike on the MAGA crowd. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-09 21:01 |
| #8 I was in a city and they had these solar powered device towers w/ microphone clusters setup on the corner. Happened to be a cop on the corner walking his beat. I asked about these device. He admitted, he was bragging, that they were portable gun-shot detecting devices that they were testing. I thought I had a talker. I asked if the protocol was VOIP? And if they were recording, how long did they keep the recordings. He was not a talker, didnt answer further, and kept his b-line down the street. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-01-09 12:47 |
| #7 More than likely solar powered radio signal repeaters. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-09 11:08 |
| #6 Those things would overload and short out in Chicago. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-01-09 09:42 |
| #5 Ha ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-09 09:18 |
| #4 Moroni detectors? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-01-09 09:16 |
#3  Motherboard - Mysterious Antennas Are Appearing in Utah's Hills and Officials Are StumpedHeinkel 219 downlinks ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-09 07:33 |
| #2 Low level, continuous orbiting systems really are the key. No need to limit collection to gunshots. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-09 07:10 |
| #1 NOTE: "Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive director Fox Cahn added that there are privacy concerns around such systems, which "can often be misused as illegal wiretaps." and ...the system falsely reported fireworks and car backfires are active shooters..." In a study published in 2021, the MacArthur Justice Center found that 89 percent of alerts that ShotSpotter sends to law enforcement had no evidence of gun-related crimes. However, ShotSpotter has claimed that its system had a 97 percent accuracy rate. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-09 05:57 |