Too much Big Brother? Mobile gunshot detection initiative stirs government surveillance concerns.
Battiste said the camera system, which is not part of the city’s contract with ShotSpotter, will enhance investigative efforts to identify shooters quicker. The cameras will be installed in areas where shootings are common.
The remaining sounds are then sent to trained ShotSpotter reviewers who are located at a ShotSpotter Incident Review Center . Those reviewers then attempt to match the sound to the typical gunfire pattern, assess the grouping of sensors that participated in the detection, and either publish the incident to police as gunfire or dismiss it as a false alarm.
“If you have a piece of technology as a tool in the tool belt and you’re not utilizing all of the tools available to do a better job, then I think you have failed the people you’ve ask permission to in moving forward on a project,” he said. “We don’t intend to bring a system online that we won’t put the other resources in place to make sure we are getting the very best out of it.”
He said that efforts by policymakers to spell out the use of the cameras before they are purchased and installed is vital to curbing potential abuse. Catherine Crump, a clinical professor and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkley School of Law in California, said the ShotSpotter system itself is considered “one of the more targeted surveillance options available these days.”
But he said in general that any system which “puts microphones in public places is a very serious privacy concern.” He said his concerns are more with the precedent the system sets for future technology that could lead to abuse.
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