Massachusetts school installs ‘Shooter Detection System’

[Natural Citizen]

Still from youtube video (Shooter Detection Systems)

A Shooter Detection System (SDS) - created with the help of the military and the first of its kind in the US – has been installed in an undisclosed Massachusetts school. The sensor can detect the sound of a gunshot, immediately alerting authorities.

The SDS was installed for free as a pilot program, and had its first demonstration on Veteran’s Day. During a simulated exercise, a “gunman” entered the school with an assault rifle and opened fire using blank ammunition in the school library, in hallways and classrooms.

CEO Christian Connors told Reuters, “The system was the first of its kind in the country, and the company was talking to the federal government about its wider use. The system costs $20,000 to $100,000.”

Other schools in California and Virginia, as well as an airport “will soon install the system as well,” said Connors.

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[acptulsa]

Popping off M-80s in school was never so much fun.

[Barrex]

How much does this cost?

What is average time since school shooting started till someone called 911?

[phill4paul]

Popping off M-80s in school was never so much fun.

Wooo-hoooo!. I'm all in. What period?

[nobody's_hero]

We're turning out to be just like Britain. A Christmas tree of Cameras on every street-corner, and they aren't good for anything except making youtube videos of someone being a victim of crime.

How much does it cost? This set-up was free, the article says, because it's a pilot sample. It's like a free sample.

I'm also curious if this might actually encourage sociopaths to perform school shootings. They do it for attention, right? So, give them a camera that automatically locks onto them when they fire a shot? It sounds like a nut-case's idea of heaven.

[GunnyFreedom]

What exactly is this supposed to accomplish? Nobody in a school upon hearing gunshots has the presence of mind to call 911, so they have to automate it? So instead of the old way, where people call 911 within 60 seconds of gunfire, now we have a machine that will call 911 within 15 seconds of gunfire? And that extra 45 seconds is going to cost what, millions of dollars?

Even assuming all the fear mongering is legit, I cannot possibly see the point in this thing.

[Czolgosz]

Americans so deserve this kind of stupidity.

[FindLiberty]

BETTER YET:
A wide-area cardiac monitor system could detect an M.I. in progress, possibly saving the teacher's life (or the life of that fat kid who's always either sleeping or eating).

It could also detect forbidden passion (teacher-student, student-teacher, teacher-teacher, student-student sex) if the BPM exceeded a certain threshold established by the united nations.

Does the detector in the OP also have an automatic defibrillator? Yea, didn't think so...

[osan]

Only government would come up with something so stupid as this.

What good does it do anyone, once the shooting has commenced?

Arm the teachers. Train them. Give blessing to shoot stone dead anyone attempting to bring students to harm.

This is not rocket surgery.

[Dr.3D]

So is this thing supposed to call the janitor to clean up or something?

It's not like it's going to stop anybody from shooting. The best it can do is alert the janitor he has a cleanup in that room.

Edit: Maybe it drops bars down over the doors and windows keeping the shooter in one room?

[SilentBull]

What exactly is this supposed to accomplish? Nobody in a school upon hearing gunshots has the presence of mind to call 911, so they have to automate it? So instead of the old way, where people call 911 within 60 seconds of gunfire, now we have a machine that will call 911 within 15 seconds of gunfire? And that extra 45 seconds is going to cost what, millions of dollars?

Even assuming all the fear mongering is legit, I cannot possibly see the point in this thing.

Exactly. So stupid. Like alerting the authorities within seconds is the problem that needs to be solved.

[dannno]

How much you wanna bet they get false alarms triggered when the teacher drops the erasable marker into the metal tray at the bottom of the erasable board?

[Natural Citizen]

Anyone remember watching old filmstrips in history class? Civil War was always a fun one. Don't know that it would be very practical watching those with no volume.

[Danke]

I hung a string of ~200 firecrackers out the second story window in math class with a cigarette for a delayed fuse. When they when off during class, the teacher just rolled his eyes.

[osan]

I hung a string of ~200 firecrackers out the second story window in math class with a cigarette for a delayed fuse. When they when off during class, the teacher just rolled his eyes.

Today, SWAT, lockdown, and a trip to jail and criminal charges. What in hell has happened to our land? Progressives happened.

We used to lower 60K electrolytic capacitors out the window in Steinman Hall at CCNY and then turn on the 460V line to which it was attached. The resulting explosion was VERY loud. Today, that sort of thing might get you shot.

[brushfire]

Oh thank goodness. They'll be able to play dead that much earlier, confusing the hell out of the shooter.