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> Let's be specific about what it does and doesn't do It doesn't tell a gunshot from a dumpster lid slamming shut. It does produce almost entirely false posi
by vkou 3y ago
> Let's be specific about what it does and doesn't do
It doesn't tell a gunshot from a dumpster lid slamming shut.
It does produce almost entirely false positives.
It doesn't identify the location of a gunshot to any useful level of precision.
I suppose if you want to start a police state, and make every fourth resident a cop, you might be able to mitigate the 90% false-positive rate, and the horrible location-identification rate, but at that point, do you even need shot-spotter?
- kube-system 3y agoThose are exactly some of the things that augmenting the data with video would help to address, which was the point of the above suggestion. Right now, police have data about where loud sounds generally come from, and video from fixed poles where crime happened in previous years. Both of these aren't great data points on their own. The intersection of that data: [Video around locations where loud noises just happened] is probably much better than disjointed data points of [video of where crime happened in previous years] and [general locations of where loud sounds are happening].