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October 17, 2006

Cameras with Gunshot Detection in Cincinnati

From The Enquirer:
A nice article on what Cincinnati is doing to roll out a 100 camera network with gunshot detection and a fiber optic grid. Its going to cost millions and take a while. Hopefully it will work better than their previous attempt:

The city bought 40 surveillance cameras in 2003 as part of a pilot program in six neighborhoods that never really took off. The cameras were never useful, in part because they ran over the public Internet and were very slow, often producing "video" that was so slow that it looked more like single-frame still shots. Those cameras are no longer used.

They also have a nice pdf of how gunshot detection works. And according to Jose Cordero, director of police in East Orange, the gunshot technology helps reduce gun crime:

Jose Cordero . . . said his department bought a system in 2005 and heavily publicized the new technology in the media, particularly the neighborhoods where cameras were installed. The result is that gun crime in those areas is down 85 percent, he said.

Posted by rshah at October 17, 2006 09:55 PM

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