Most shootins are done with handguns and not rifles statistically - and those are much much easier to conceal.
What happens to false positives? Are you increasing a chance of a kid with a "tactical umbrella" being shot?
but yay! more surveilance and cameras!
While it primarily uses acoustic detection, a recent analysis demonstrated it caused 40,000 false police responses over the period of 21 months.
https://www.macarthurjustice.org/shotspotter-generated-over-...
The EFF is highly critical of them over the fact they're constantly recording audio & video and that could be potentially problematic for a host of other reasons, however in a school, I'm sure there are constant recordings regardless.
https://sls.eff.org/technologies/gunshot-detection
Don't let that dissuade you though. Problems like this require a variety of innovative solutions and with GenAI now being able to identify things visually, perhaps it can do a better job than the acoustic systems in the past. It would definitely need to have loads of training data on all different gun models & types and need to differentiate other common objects students might be holding in their hands like a pen or a phone, etc.
Bravo.
Source: I carry a pistol in accordance with Texas law and my CHL/LTC license.
I see a privacy issue, but if it is incorporated into existing systems, what is the difference?
Maybe alert the security person who is supposed to be watching the cameras instead of calling 911, this would eliminate false positives.
The alternative is not to have if and stay where we are...
