{"id":637,"date":"2008-03-30T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/03\/30\/shotspotter\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T19:39:37","slug":"shotspotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/03\/30\/shotspotter\/","title":{"rendered":"ShotSpotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotspotter.com\/\">Shotspotter<\/a> system? I&#8217;d seen it on a National Geographic TV show, and remembered in the back of my head reading about it being deployed in parts of Boston. It&#8217;s actually very cool how it works &#8212; it essentially has a big array of microphones, and when it &#8220;hears&#8221; a gunshot, it&#8217;ll compare the exact time of arrival of the sound at each location to triangulate a position, which then pops up on a dispatcher&#8217;s screen.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m listening to Boston PD on the radio, and maybe five minutes ago the dispatcher called out for a reading on the ShotSpotter system. &#8220;Five, six, seven, looks like eight shots fired.&#8221; She figured out the location from the map (apparently, an alley), and started a couple cars. In maybe 60 seconds an officer was on the scene, reported a car leaving, and had confirmed that shots were fired with a witness.<\/p>\n<p>About a minute later, the dispatcher said that they had received a 911 call for shots fired from the same location. (Which means that they had an officer arriving on scene by the time the call came in!) They&#8217;ve just pulled over a possible suspect, and another officer found the shell casings. Detectives are en route now for forensics processing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to say, this seems like a pretty impressive system.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you familiar with the Shotspotter system? I&#8217;d seen it on a National Geographic TV show, and remembered in the back of my head reading about it being deployed in parts of Boston. It&#8217;s actually very cool how it works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/03\/30\/shotspotter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-interesting","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}