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I've always wondered if playing back recordings at loud volumes could full these things... do a flyby with a drone that has a big enough speaker on it every 15

I've always wondered if playing back recordings at loud volumes could full these things... do a flyby with a drone that has a big enough speaker on it every 15 minutes. How sophisticated is their audio analysis?

potato3732842 2y ago
The mics for shot spotter are mounted high up. The word on the street is if you shoot the ground in an area confined from sound on the sides but not above your neighbors won't be too accosted but the police will probably get an alert. I assume this tech is similarly half baked.
- idunnoman1222 2y ago
  You know you’re not allowed to shoot the ground in a city right?
- alwa 2y ago
  For what purpose do people on the street want to shoot into the ground to elicit a police response while not unduly inconveniencing the neighbors? Is this a way to jump the queue on the emergency service phone line or something?
  - potato3732842 2y ago
    People who are morally adjacent to the kind of people bringing stolen cars to sideshows do this because "fuck the police" or something along those lines and they only care about their neighbors so far as they don't want their neighbors thinking there's a shootout going on and manually calling it in.
gs17 2y ago
You probably don't even need a recording for a car, if it's like ShotSpotter, a lot of common noises that will trigger them. ShotSpotter has a specific "firework suppression mode" turned on for holidays and still 1 in 10 alerts were from fireworks: https://data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/boston-shotspotter/ https://data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/boston-shotspotter/
- awill88 2y ago
  Yeah this whole effort is just more money wasted on security theater and this whole discussion thread is filled with disgruntled tech workers who drive into the city rather than take Bart and are so clearly salty about the inconvenience of people being people. To be honest I would have thought sideshows would’ve gone out of style by now I’m sort of impressed it’s this much of a problem lol
e40 2y ago
A sideshow is a very specific sound that lasts much longer than a gunshot. In the summer with windows open, I can hear them from miles away and they last for 30-40 minutes sometimes. On Friday and Saturday the usual time is around 1-3am, too. It’s hard for me to believe the cops don’t know about them in time to do something. They probably don’t have enough officers on duty at this time of night.

potato3732842 2y ago

The mics for shot spotter are mounted high up. The word on the street is if you shoot the ground in an area confined from sound on the sides but not above your neighbors won't be too accosted but the police will probably get an alert. I assume this tech is similarly half baked.

idunnoman1222 2y ago
You know you’re not allowed to shoot the ground in a city right?
alwa 2y ago
For what purpose do people on the street want to shoot into the ground to elicit a police response while not unduly inconveniencing the neighbors? Is this a way to jump the queue on the emergency service phone line or something?
- potato3732842 2y ago
  People who are morally adjacent to the kind of people bringing stolen cars to sideshows do this because "fuck the police" or something along those lines and they only care about their neighbors so far as they don't want their neighbors thinking there's a shootout going on and manually calling it in.

gs17 2y ago

You probably don't even need a recording for a car, if it's like ShotSpotter, a lot of common noises that will trigger them. ShotSpotter has a specific "firework suppression mode" turned on for holidays and still 1 in 10 alerts were from fireworks: https://data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/boston-shotspotter/ https://data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/boston-shotspotter/

awill88 2y ago
Yeah this whole effort is just more money wasted on security theater and this whole discussion thread is filled with disgruntled tech workers who drive into the city rather than take Bart and are so clearly salty about the inconvenience of people being people. To be honest I would have thought sideshows would’ve gone out of style by now I’m sort of impressed it’s this much of a problem lol

e40 2y ago

A sideshow is a very specific sound that lasts much longer than a gunshot. In the summer with windows open, I can hear them from miles away and they last for 30-40 minutes sometimes. On Friday and Saturday the usual time is around 1-3am, too. It’s hard for me to believe the cops don’t know about them in time to do something. They probably don’t have enough officers on duty at this time of night.