Spotting More than Shots:While Putting the "New" in New York

Is NYC’s new gunshot detection system recording private conversations? [More]

Probably. After all, it picked up a man's voice in Oakland.  I recall when the system had not yet been challenged in court because it was "not dead-on accurate," and how Boston cops had "called it a joke."

Matter of fact, why they're calling it "new" is a bit of a mislead, as we've been talking about it here for some years (and Vin Suprynowicz wrote about it before then, hence the arrow).

From one such post in 2008:

Let's do an experiment.

BANG BANG BANG

Now imagine how far away you could be in the two minutes "average time" Newark says it takes them to respond. And why on earth would we not believe a Newark police official?
"Currently ShotSpotter is deployed in more than 29 major U.S. cities," we are told.

Anyone got numbers to demonstrate a reduction in "gun violence" attributable to the system?

The word "fraud" comes to mind. But I guess when you're part of the problem, there's nothing to do but keep the con game going as long as you can find suckers to fall for it.

It does keep the money coming in though, does it not?
 
[Via Felix B]