Using federal grants, cities are contracting with companies that hack smartphones and detect gunshots.
Archiv: ShotSpotter (surveillance technology)
NYPD: Intelligence and Counterterrorism
The Deputy Commissioner oversees both the Intelligence Bureau, which is responsible for intelligence collection and analysis; and the NYPD‘s Counterterrorism Bureau operations, including the partnership with the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, the first and largest of its kind in the nation.
New York City is home to more than 8 million people and hosts over 58 million visitors from all over the world annually. The Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureaus provide some of the most highly trained and best equipped officers to patrol the city, collect and analyze data, and collaborate with partner agencies.
NYPD: Counterterrorism
The CT Bureau reviews possible terrorist targets and develops innovative, forward-thinking policies and procedures to guard against attacks, training first responders and specialized units and developing intelligence capabilities for detecting and preventing terrorist attacks. The bureau coordinates with federal, state, and other law enforcement agencies in intelligence gathering and sharing, and plays an integral role in the FBI‘s Joint Terrorist Task Force.
Critical Response Command (CRC) is one of the Department‘s first lines of defense against a terrorist-related attack. A permanent cadre of hand-selected police officers devoted to counterterrorism, CRC members are trained to respond swiftly, with sufficient expertise and force, to the most highly organized and heavily armed attacks. All CRC team members are trained in special weapons and long-range guns, explosive trace detection, radiological and nuclear awareness, biological and chemical weapons awareness, and are equipped with the skills to detect an impending attack and utilize the best possible response to an emerging situation. The team conducts daily counterterrorism deployments to critical infrastructure sites throughout New York City, saturating strategic locations with a uniform presence to disrupt and deter terrorist planning and hostile surveillance operations.
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Domain Awareness System (DAS) is a powerful counterterrorism and policing tool jointly developed and built by the NYPD and Microsoft. As a central platform, DAS is used to aggregate data from internal and external closed-circuit television cameras, license plate readers, and environmental sensors, as well as 911 calls and other NYPD databases. DAS uses an interactive dashboard interface to display real-time alerts whenever a 911 call is received or a sensor is triggered.
Analyse: Geheimdienstlicher Komplex will das stadtweite „Überwachungs“-System in Berlin wieder aktivieren lassen
(30.12.2016)
– akustische Spionage durch ein Netzwerk von Mikrofonen im gesamten „Kontrollgebiet“, von Zivilisten auch Stadt genannt. In 2012 machten die U.S.-Behörden über die „New York Times“ öffentlich, dass ein solches Netzwerk von Mikrofonen bereits zum damaligen Zeitpunkt in fast 70 Städten installiert und im operativen Einsatz war. Staatliche Ausreden: Gefahrenabwehr für die Stadtbewohner wahlweise vor sich selbst oder Außerirdischen („Aliens“), zur Erfassung von Schusswaffengebrauch („ShotSpotter“), Aufklärung von Verbrechen, etc., etc. Seit geraumer Zeit wird dieser Einsatz stadtweiter akustischer Überwachung für Deutschland propagiert. Erfahrungsgemäß heisst das: es wird bereits eingesetzt.
– akustische Spionage in Verkehrsmitteln wie Bussen, U-Bahnen, Zügen, die im Zuge der „Videoüberwachung“ den gefährlichen Urbanisten klammheimlich mit untergejubelt wird, kombiniert mit GPS-Tracking, also Lokalisation. Seit 2012 ist diese Version der landesweiten Ausdehnung von Bevölkerungskontrolle aka Inlandsspionage öffentlich – in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.
US-System „ShotSpotter“ auch für Deutschland? Akustische Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum
(5.11.2015) Im März 2015 trat New Yorks Bürgermeister Bill de Blasio vor die Presse, um bekanntzugeben, dass die Stadt eine neue Technologie eingeführt habe um das Verbrechen zu bekämpfen.
„It‘s going to send a message out into our communities that if you fire a weapon, the police is going to know instantly, so there is going to be a deterrent effect.“
Es ginge darum, eine Botschaft an die Bürger auszusenden, sagte de Blasio: Von nun an wüsste es die Polizei sofort, wenn irgendwo in der Stadt eine Waffe abgefeuert wird —das solle abschreckend wirken.
Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
(28.5.2012) Milwaukee is one of an increasing number of cities around the country — just under 70 to date, including some in the New York area — that are using a gunshot detection system called ShotSpotter to pinpoint the location of gunfire seconds after it occurs.
High-Tech ‘Ears’ Listen for Shots
(20.11.2009) The dispatcher had heard and mapped the shots using ShotSpotter, a gunshot tracking system that has been adopted so far by 45 cities, universities and government sites — giving its operators near-bionic listening powers, often in troubled places. (…)
ShotSpotter is made by a 14-year-old eponymous company in Mountain View, Calif., that is considered a leader in the field of acoustic gunshot tracking, though there are other systems: Sentri, made by Safety Dynamics of Tucson, monitors smaller areas with cameras and microphones, and the mobile Boomerang system, made by BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., is used by the military in Afghanistan and Iraq to track sniper fire.
Baltimore police will expand gunshot detection, get more laptops for police cars
(14.7.2017) A Washington Post story on the meeting began by reporting on Pugh’s request to expand Shotspotter. The system uses acoustical sensors to determine where gunshots are fired. It was reintroduced last year after being shelved in 2015.
Ortungstechnik: Lauschen auf den Knall vom Wedding
(5.4.2016) So beschreibt die „New York Times“ einen Einsatz des ShotSpotter-Systems des Herstellers SST, das mittlerweile in mehr als 70 Städten der USA im Einsatz ist, darunter Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Milwaukee und Minneapolis. Seine Aufgabe: Allein aus Geräuschen die Position einer Schießerei ermitteln – und das mit hoher Effizienz, wie der Hersteller wirbt.
Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
(28.5.2012) Milwaukee is one of an increasing number of cities around the country — just under 70 to date, including some in the New York area — that are using a gunshot detection system called ShotSpotter to pinpoint the location of gunfire seconds after it occurs.
Now that‘s a listening post! Big Brother fears as NYPD attaches microphones to lampposts to listen out for gunshots… but they can also record your conversations
(22.3.2015) Three hundred ShotSpotter microphones are being placed in high crime areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn, with the aim of alerting police immediately when they overhear the sound of gunshots.
However, the devices pick up more that just the bang of shots being fired in potential crimes, and evidence from conversations they‘ve listened in on has been used in court.
High-Tech ‘Ears’ Listen for Shots
(20.11.2009) The ShotSpotter system uses microphones that transmit the sound of a gunshot to a police mainframe computer seconds after the firing. The wireless sensors also gauge their distance from the noise, like bats, triangulating the information to direct the police to the shooting site. If the system sounds like Big Brother, it is, kind of — except, one police official insisted, it eavesdrops only on things that go bang.
Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
(28.Mai 2012) Milwaukee is one of an increasing number of cities around the country — just under 70 to date, including some in the New York area — that are using a gunshot detection system called ShotSpotter to pinpoint the location of gunfire seconds after it occurs. Last year, the company that developed ShotSpotter began offering a more affordable system, and that has brought in new clients and led other cities to consider trying it.
The detection system, which triangulates sound picked up by acoustic sensors placed on buildings, utility poles and other structures, is part of a wave of technological advances that is transforming the way police officers do their jobs.
Now that‘s a listening post! Big Brother fears as NYPD attaches microphones to lampposts to listen out for gunshots… but they can also record your conversations
(22.März) Three hundred ShotSpotter microphones are being placed in high crime areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn, with the aim of alerting police immediately when they overhear the sound of gunshots.
However, the devices pick up more that just the bang of shots being fired in potential crimes, and evidence from conversations they‘ve listened in on has been used in court.
NYC Installing Eavesdropping Microphones Across City
(18.März) It’s called ShotSpotter, a large tracking system which detects gunfire and then triangulates the position of the sound. Acoustic sensors are placed in strategic areas, mostly along rooftops or atop telephone poles. Once installed, the sensors pick up street noise and listen for gunshots.
The Demilitarization Ruse
These ongoing efforts to collect `human intelligence´ — information gleaned from interpersonal relations — are taking place in an environment transformed by other forms of surveillance: 121 cameras that cover the whole city; 35 “shotspotter” microphones that detect gunshot locations; automated license plate readers; and SkyPatrol, a mobile observation post that can scan six square blocks with thermal-imaging equipment.