Gunshot / Camera System Utterly Fails

John Honovich

This is truly a bizarre case.

I am not even sure why they expected this to work.

Wilmington, DE, a city of ~70,000 people spent $250,000 USD on 18 gunshot detection cameras from Safety Dynamics / SENTRI.

Unfortunately, as an investigative report from the Delaware newspaper show, it has been a complete failure. The reason is simple - the cameras/sensors only work at a range of 500 feet each, impossible to cover even a fraction of the city of 17 square miles. Here's a video of the police explaining the issues and their desire to switch:

And here's a video demo of Sentri, which is amazingly pointless, unless you want to spend $10,000+ to detect gunshots right next to you.

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Alain Bolduc

02/08/14 11:43pm

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02/09/14 12:37am

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Joe Mirolli

IPVMU Certified | 02/09/14 06:40pm

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Joe Mirolli | 02/09/14 07:08pm

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Joe Mirolli

IPVMU Certified | In reply to John Honovich | 02/09/14 07:33pm

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Marty Major

In reply to Joe Mirolli | 02/09/14 07:45pm

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Ari Erenthal

In reply to Marty Major | 02/10/14 02:36pm

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Joe Mirolli

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Marty Major | 02/09/14 09:36pm

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Brian Rhodes

IPVMU Certified | 02/09/14 10:47pm

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Alain Bolduc

In reply to Brian Rhodes | 02/10/14 03:09pm

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Jim Hall

In reply to Brian Rhodes | 02/10/14 05:42pm

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