Photo from open source One of these days one of the largest police US offices have established in various areas of New York so called shot locators – ultra-sensitive microphones, responding to the sounds of shooting, and sending if they are detected alarms at a nearby police station. Local authorities explain similar measures recently gunfights and high crime rates in general.
According to statistics, in 75 percent of cases, people who hear on the streets of the city the sounds of shooting do not consider it necessary to turn to the police. This is another reason why New York was installed three hundred locators that recognize shots from firearms.
It would seem that residents of the American metropolis should only be glad police eagerness to control crime in New York but the question arises – what else do locators record besides sounds? shooting and city noise? Police department should prepare quarterly reports indicating exactly what time record these wonderful microphones during this time, but as it will be in the future this information is used, and where exactly the locators are located shots, New Yorkers are not aware.
This is already beginning to cause serious concern to the townspeople, who fear for their privacy. After all if hidden microphones can pick up human speech, then talk unsuspecting American citizens are recorded without their consent, which is known to be a crime. It turns out that shot locators become something like “Big Brother”, controlling from all sides the city dweller. So what NYPD is concerned: takes care of the safety of citizens or illegally interferes with their privacy?
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