“the system detects, locates and alerts police to gunfire in less than 60 seconds using a network of acoustic sensors across a coverage area.”The Seattle city budget has $1.5 million in next year’s budget for a pilot project that would pair SoundThinking with closed-circuit TV cameras. The city council is expected to vote on a final version of next year’s budget later this month.
It said the technology “has never been validated to prove it can accurately label gunshots.” Campaign Zero has claimed that SoundThinking has deployed police to “truck doors slamming, popped volleyballs, breaking glass and many other everyday noises.”last year, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell called SoundThinking an evidence-gathering tool and not a crime-prevention tool, and said he considered it “good tech in certain areas.