Spot Shotter has repeatedly been shown to not only completely miss gunfights but also to have false positives. It’s crazy how many bullshit devices that don’t really work end up getting used by the government.
Voice Stress Analysis is another, even more eggregious example: It is 100% bullshit but police departments all over the place still buy this bullshit and act like it’s not complete quackery that has been thoroughly and completely debunked.
Spot Shotter has repeatedly been shown to not only completely miss gunfights but also to have false positives. It’s crazy how many bullshit devices that don’t really work end up getting used by the government.
Voice Stress Analysis is another, even more eggregious example: It is 100% bullshit but police departments all over the place still buy this bullshit and act like it’s not complete quackery that has been thoroughly and completely debunked.
Devices like the stress analyzer aren’t meant to work, they’re meant to give excuses for further action. Like drug-sniffing dogs.
My city was considering getting it, but I live less than a mile from a gun range and from Thur. to Sun. in our neighborhood all you hear is gunfire.
So I asked the city, how does Shotspotter tell the difference between gunfire that’s expected (gun range) from gunfire that’s NOT expected (crime)?
It doesn’t. My city declined to buy it. ;)