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From: Sarah Thompson <righter@aros.net>
Subject: The Shot Heard Coast to Coast
Date: 03 Apr 1996 18:39:56 -0700
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> POLICE IN REDWOOD CITY, California, have hidden sophisticated
> listening devices throughout the San Francisco
> suburb. The devices detect gunfire, signal police
> headquarters, and can locate shots to within 10
> yards of where they were fired. The system,
> developed by Trilon Technology, has cost $25,000
> so far for this middle-class city of 70,000. But a
> similar system, using a type of sonar spun off of
> Defense Department research, may soon be installed
> in Washington or another major city. Officials at
> Alliant Techsystems, which is developing these
> acoustic sensors under a Federal grant, say their
> system can reduce the time it takes the police to
> respond to a shooting by about 85 percent. "You
> can get there so much faster now that the
> difference may literally be between life and
> death," said Bill Labuda, who is developing the
> system. Redwood City police admit they could, with
> minor adjustments, focus their sensors on
> conversations inside houses instead of merely
> picking up high-decibel gunfire in public areas.
> [source: New York Times]
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> ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY: This article went on to quote Redwood City
> residents who were thrilled with this new system. This is a great
> testimony to the faith and trust that the local police department
> has built up with its residents!
>
> Let's put two news items in this issue [9 March 1996 CC Journal]
> together: this monitoring system, and the new gun law in New
> Jersey. Neighbor A walks over to Neighbor B's house to borrow a
> hedge clipper. Both men are hunting fanatics. "Yea, I got rid of
> that useless Brand-X deer rifle I had. Sold it to a guy in the
> camp who just had to have it!"
>
> Unless Neighbor A carries a lot more government paperwork than
> most people do on a hunting trip, he's just admitted that he
> transferred a firearm in violation of New Jersey's new law. The
> sentence? Mandatory life in prison. Are the police listening
> through their high-tech sensors?
>
> What about the husband or wife who admits to a neighbor that they
> spanked a child? Will the listening devices pick up a child
> receiving a spanking? Our bet is they will. Do the police have
> probable cause to enter the house without a search warrant? Why
> not -- they have listening evidence -- probably on tape -- that a
> crime has been committed -- or more accurately, that a law has
> been broken. (The two are no longer synonymous!)
>
> We know that the police are working under very difficult
> circumstances. But we also know that many police department
> budgets benefit handsomely from seized property. And as we go to
> press, the US Supreme Court has just upheld a major property
> seizure case. Remember, you don't need to be guilty of a crime to
> have your property seized. The property itself can be guilty.
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> Listening devices on every corner? The information gathered can
> just as easily be used on political dissenters as it can gang-
> bangers. The Bible warns us that "the heart of man is incredibly
> wicked; who can know it?" It doesn't exempt the heart of the
> policeman or the local politician.
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