Machines are not racists. Human beings are racists.

The "shot spotter" system is very effective for locating the place of gunshots happens. The "shot spotter" cannot track people after gunshots are fired. It can make two circles around the location of gunshots.

Triangular metering determines the place where gunshots are located. Those circles are the possible distance of the shooter to the point where gunshots are located. Those distances are basing the average speed of a walking or running person or person who uses some vehicles. 

The "shot spotter" came into service in the 1990s. And there are more effective ways to locate the gunshot point. There is the possibility that when the shot spotter locates a suspected gunshot the system can send the drone to see what is going on. Or the system would aim the nearest surveillance camera to the point of suspected shooting. 

The new systems might base the networked systems like surveillance cameras and automatic drones that send to the point where shots are located. The system can base on the quadcopters that are around the city. And when that system locates suspected gunshot. It can send the quadcopter to see what is going on automatically. And that helps the field control to make sure about the situation before the patrol is sent. 

The acoustic system bases the microphones that are taking triangular metering. The reason why people are resists this system is that it makes the police more sensitive to use guns. The shot spotter sends information to the police HQ. And then the field leader will make a decision. Was the thing that is heard a gunshot or not? 

The shot spotter is a suitable system for the battlefield. But is it the same way suitable for city area? When the acoustic system detects a suspected gunshot. The field leader gets information about a gunshot that person has 80 seconds to decide to send or not to send the patrol. And then the reputation of the area has always an influence to decision. 

But the reputation and tales about the area. Always affect the actions of the law enforcers who go to that mission. If some area has a violent reputation. And the police are searching for an armed suspect. That thing causes the finger of the trigger to become too sensitive. And that causes deadly gunshots. If the attitude of a law enforcer is that the minorities are criminals. That will turn the risk of use of the gun even lower.  

If the decision is that the heard thing was a gunshot. The leader will send the patrol to the area. That will lower the limit to using the gun. Because the policemen will search the armed suspect. The thing is that the system is claimed to be unfair to ethnic minorities. When the suspected gunshot is heard in the neighborhood where the main population is a minority. 

This causes the patrol will send to the area more often than to the area, where the main population is white. But when we are thinking of the systems the weak ring in all chains is human. The thing is that the acoustic system heard the bang. That sound is not necessarily gunshot. Artificial intelligence can tell does some sound the serial fire of assault rifle. But the problem is that this thing needs artificial intelligence. 

The problem is not in the system that tracks possible gunshots. The problem is in people who are reacting to the cases. If the leader would not send patrols. That thing means humans made that decision. So the problem is not in the system itself. The problem is in the attitudes of people who use the system. 

Is there any kind of statistics that are telling how many phone calls to the emergency center cause that police to come to place? Or how many times police will not send because the on-call decides that the patron will not need to come? And how many of those decisions have been wrong? And how many of those 911-calls caused no reaction or where the patrol not sent was made because of gunshots?

The thing is that in the system where the decision of the reaction makes the human is vulnerable. If the leader will have racist opinions that are not the problem of computers. So why the system will not be allowed to send patrols to position automatically? The problem is that if the attitudes of police are racist. That thing always causes problems. The acoustic gunshot location system was the plan for making easier to find shooters. But the problem is the human who executes orders. When police will get information about the gunshot. Law enforcement must take those things seriously. They must prepare for the gunfight. 

And those situations are always stressful. Then somebody says "gun" and then there is a victim who had no gun. So after that, the internal affairs starts the investigation that takes as long as they want. The investigators were not in the dark street, where is the suspected armed criminal. Or the shooter claims that somebody saw a gun. Of course, there might be attitudes that some area is more violent. And that thing will cause the level to shoot people is lower than it should be.  

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https://303magazine.com/2022/01/shotspotter/

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-shotspotter-works-microphones-detecting-gunshots-2017-6?r=US&IR=T

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/05/03/shotspotter-chicago-police-contract-questions/

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/08/30/chicagos-shotspotter-misses-gunfire-manipulates-police-behavior-report/

https://www.shotspotter.com/

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The role of police in social and political life is very complicated

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

By using police for disturbing political and business enemies is very usual in real life. With some discussions of official position, is sometimes have been rumored, that the person, who is as the candidate for that position has criminal registration markings. Same times the crimes, what have caused those markings are not mentioned. This means that the quality of crime must be always told because sometimes those markings come from parking tickets, what is not paid. The reason for that may be different than we think, and the owner of that vehicle would able to pay the ticket, but somebody, who walked by the car just pull the ticket off the windshield.


And this might look like the owner of the vehicle seems like doesn't care the regulations at all. This method has been used against politicians sometimes. Somebody just pulls the parking ticket out of the window, and the owner of the vehicle doesn't even know to get that ticket. And of course, that ticket would not be paid in those cases. I have heard rumors that some newspapers have had contracts, that they have prepaid some parking tickets, but that is of course crime. The rumors say that the reason for that has been, that the reporters would park their vehicles near some conference centers.


When we are talking about this kind of actions, that method could be used for setting traps to some persons. In those cases, the vehicle would be parked in some parking lot and the parking warden would not give the ticket for that vehicle because it was prepaid. When the next guy comes and makes the same action, would the result be the ticket on the windshield, and of course those bills are not very cheap. But when we are getting back to the main question about police work and it's relationship with political power, we must consider that sometimes happens the things, what are unexpected.

One of those things happened in 1960's when the FBI fought against Ku Klux Klan in the deep south. There were happened cases, where  KKK found the witnesses of the violence, by using information, what came from judges. This meant that FBI could not ask permission to eavesdrop on telephones, and that's why they began to eavesdrop the telephones of judges. Then some FBI agents realized, that those judges used payphones for informing the KKK for the location of the witnesses. And then they began operation COINTELPRO, where all public telephones were eavesdrop because they were used in criminal purposes.

The problem with that program was that FBI didn't ask permission for those actions. But at the same time, FBI and Military forces became PSY-OP operation, what was claimed to named COINTLEPRO, what was not same as COITELPRO. The idea of this program was to deliver information about crimes, what was made in the name of KKK. And of course, that was the counteraction for the counselors attempt to claim those persons only patriotic Americans. So the info-op specialists published the actions of those patriots in the free newspapers, what were delivered to trains and bus stops.

The interface of those publications was much larger than paid newspapers were, and this was causing the situation that people's eyes were opened. Of course, the separation between races made the life of the police officers very easy, because of guilty persons were always found from the black community. The problem with that was, that sometimes those policemen didn't the faces of the white boys, and they came home from the station with the black circle around their eye. Also, this ethnic profiling made police stations very scare places for everybody who was not pleased, policemen.


There were rumors that some southern side policemen had sent black people to death row for their own crimes. And because the police were very feared, the criminal organizations could act freely. If they wanted somebody to make murders for them, those gangsters must only call black men, who could not be undercover police officers, because they were not accepted in the police training. And those gangsters claimed that their method was right.


Name of that organization was "The Black Panther league", and those gunmen claimed to work for the black community. In the real world, those persons were actually worked as gunmen for Mafia, and they didn't even want the end of race separation. That gave very much money for the pockets of the leaders of the "Black Panthers", who also sold heroin to their clients. Somebody claims that behind the murder of the Martin Luther King was actually the "Black Panther league", that wanted to stop this man's non-violent resistance and attempts to change the law in the states, where race separation was legal.


And Martin Luther King made in a couple of months more good than  "Black Panther league" during all its history. Those young gunmen are the people, who are created the term "black gangsters". When we are thinking about ethnic profiling, we must say that every time, when police make that kind of things like checks the papers from the black people, because of the color of the skin, that is off the police's other work. And if some policeman has the attitude, that color of the skin makes people criminal, would that cause that even serial killers can slip off the law enforcement, what sends people to jail because they were the different color than this person self.

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Racism is the good stick horse for criminals

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