There’s an App for That

SplitSec, a Chicago company, says its app uses residents’ phones instead of the fixed acoustic sensors used by the controversial Shotspotter program… SplitSec ultimately wants roughly 300 to 400 participants per ward to create a sufficiently dense “mesh” of phones that can corroborate suspected gunfire. The company has floated an introductory price of $15,000 per ward per year [More]

And you thought ShotSpotter was a boondoggle. Everything to dance around and ignore the obvious.

Be funny if reporting phones get confiscated as evidence..

Forget it, Jake, it’s Chi-Town.

[Via Steve T]

Every Breath You Take

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices [More]

Don’t let them hear you!

Good ol’ public/private partnerships

Me, I’m wondering how easy it would be to punk these things– not that you’ll catch me on the street in an area that uses them.

[Via Steve T]