I spend a fair amount of my time in Oakland where I hear gunshots about as frequently as I see car accidents.
Everytime it happens the first thing the neighbors do is hop on the local listserv and literally triangulate the source of the shooting based on where they heard the sound coming from, with respect to each other.
A publicly accessible / open source / subsidized / non-locked down / crowd sourced version of ShotSpotter would make a lot of sense. I would hope for something more along the lines of a Safecast[1] for gunshots. If one can cross-correlate with traffic footage it should have a chilling effect. That the ShotSpotter system is locked down and costs ~$4,166.66 per sensor is madness [2].
Everytime it happens the first thing the neighbors do is hop on the local listserv and literally triangulate the source of the shooting based on where they heard the sound coming from, with respect to each other.
A publicly accessible / open source / subsidized / non-locked down / crowd sourced version of ShotSpotter would make a lot of sense. I would hope for something more along the lines of a Safecast[1] for gunshots. If one can cross-correlate with traffic footage it should have a chilling effect. That the ShotSpotter system is locked down and costs ~$4,166.66 per sensor is madness [2].
[1] http://blog.safecast.org/
[2] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/shotspotter.html