to distrust police. you can see we ve got some proximal incidents right here. this is shotspotter s incident review centre. ginger is one of the analysts. wavy alarm sounds. oh, there s an incident right there. that s the sound we hear when an incident comes up, yep. when the computer thinks a gunshot has been fired, herjob is to review it and decide whether to dispatch police officers, all in under 60 seconds. this is a waveform which if you do any kind of audio work, you ve seen this before. so we re listening to that, we re looking how far does the sound travel, we re looking to seeli how many sensors picked it up, if the sensor has made a directional pattern because, in theory, a gunshot can only travel in one direction. to me it doesn t look like it s gunfire, but that s why we also listen to it. wavy alarm sounds. possible gunfire pops. that sounds like gunfire to me. in this case, i think you might be right
around a neighbourhood. when a gunshot is fired the mics pick up the sound, how long it took to reach the sensors and from which direction, effectively triangulating the shot. shotspotter was founded on the west coast of america in the mid 90s, in that cradle of american innovation, silicon valley. the company has agreed to give the bbc access to show me how the system works and why they believe it s needed. what makes the system so compelling, we believe, is the fact that in many communities that suffer from ongoing persistent gunfire, people for a lot of reasons don t call 911 which means there s no police response which means that communities begin to distrust police. you can see we ve got some proximal incidents right here. this is shotspotter s incident review centre.
the company has agreed to give the bbc access to show me how the system works and why they believe it s needed. what makes the system so compelling, we believe, is the fact that in many communities that suffer from ongoing persistent gunfire, people for a lot of reasons don t call 911 which means there s no police response which means that communities begin to distrust police. you can see we ve got some proximal incidents right here. this is shotspotter s incident review centre. ginger is one of the analysts. wavy alarm sounds. 0h, there s an incident right there. that s the sound we hear when an incident comes up, yep. when the computer thinks a gunshot has been fired, herjob is to review it and decide whether to dispatch police officers, all in under 60 seconds. this is a waveform which if you do any kind of audio work, you ve seen this before. so we re listening to that, we re looking how far does the sound travel, we re looking to seeli how many sensors picked it up, if the sensor
what makes the system so compelling, we believe, is the fact that in many communities that suffer from ongoing persistent gunfire, people for a lot of reasons don t call 911, which means there s no police response, which means that communities begin to distrust police. you can see we ve got some proximal incidents right here. this is shotspotter s incident review centre. ginger is one of the analysts. wavy alarm sounds. oh, there s an incident right there. that s the sound we hear when an incident comes up, yep. when the computer thinks a gunshot has been fired, herjob is to review it and decide whether to dispatch police officers, all in under 60 seconds. this is a waveform which, if you do any kind of audio work, you ve seen this before. so we re listening to that, we re looking how far does the sound travel, we re looking to see how many sensors picked it up, if the sensor has made a directional pattern because, in theory, a gunshot can only travel in one direction. to me it doesn t
shotspotter was founded on the west coast of america in the mid 90s, in that cradle of american innovation, silicon valley. the company has agreed to give the bbc access to show me how the system works and why they believe it s needed. what makes the system so compelling, we believe, is the fact that in many communities that suffer from ongoing persistent gunfire, people for a lot of reasons don t call 911 which means there s no police response which means that communities begin to distrust police. you can see we ve got some proximal incidents right here. this is shotspotter s incident review centre. ginger is one of the analysts. wavy alarm sounds. oh, there s an incident right there. that s the sound we hear when an incident comes up, yep. when the computer thinks a gunshot has been fired, herjob is to review it