Comments on: Gun violence goes unreported by residents

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:17:02 +0000

It’s much worse than reported. The vast amount of gun violence is in 4 cities.

http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=10005

These four cities and maybe a couple others are THE reason we have high gun violence number sin the US. Of course the cities where this happens they let felons go when they are caught with guns. They could stop the whole thing in a few years by arresting felons with guns and jailing them. Yes it’s mostly Blacks.

By: Phil B

Phil B — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:01:55 +0000

residents who live in communities that are often poor and under-served by police

I wonder why the Police don’t bother with those “communities”? Could it possibly be that when a murder does occur, they get zero help from that “community” and attempting to arrest a suspect or perpetrator will trigger a riot?

Unless and until those “communities” actually want the violence to stop and help the Police to achieve this, then all the money, technology and resources poured into the “communities” might as well be burnt in a furnace to heat water. It will do more good that way.

By: Adar

Adar — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:49:53 +0000

Decades ago in that area of New Orleans called Gert Town the cops fired off several hundred rounds of ammo just to see who would report what. Not one thing reported by anyone.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:35:16 +0000

Dude’s selling a product of highly questionable worth–Of course, he’s going to do whatever he can to sell his product.

You want real-world understanding of how well the damn thing works, look here:

https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2017/02/shotspotter.html

Read the comments, from serving Chicago PD cops, and then wonder whether or not this technology even works… I know the early versions we had in Iraq and Afghanistan were usually not that useful to us, and the mobile ones were super-iffy as to direction of shots fired, and all the rest. I don’t think this technology is ready for prime time, at all–Let alone, worthy of multi-million dollar contracts where the money ought to be going towards hiring more cops and jailing more criminals using guns. Hell, Chicago doesn’t even prosecute on something like 90% of firearms possession and criminal use.