[Q-ManRN]

This article is typical of how taxpayer money is wasted by providing a false sense of security with gun control foolishness. The article also demonstrates the way liberal reporters cover stories by not asking the tough questions.

This article starts with the assumption that increased surveillance will "help reduce gun violence in the city." However, the surveillance technology works by detecting gunshots; so, "gun violence" would have already occurred for that system to work.

Next, the article says the gunshot detectors will allow police to direct the cameras that way. Once again, this action would occur after shots have already been fired; so, it is not clear how the system would reduce criminal violence.

Then, the police chief assures readers that the surveillance system will help police determine where people are getting shot in order to move police there. First, I find it hard to believe that it is hard to figure out where shootings frequently occur. Most law-abiding people are quick to notify police when gun shots are fired in their vicinity. And it should not take too much police work to figure out where victims were shot in most cases.

Second, police and most residents already know where the high crime areas in their town or city are located. According to this article, the Public Safety Committee requests additional surveillance in areas known to have violent crime; therefore, finding areas of frequent violent crime does not appear to be a problem.

Third, criminals can always move their activities to different areas.

Furthermore, residents are told that the surveillance system "is not a be-all, end-all to stopping gun violence in our city". Translation: the surveillance system will not reduce violent crime, but it will give police a great tool to spy on citizens.

Finally, someone needs to tell those folks that guns do not commit violent crimes, people commit violent crimes. The residents would do better to focus on criminals instead of focusing on guns.

[Q-ManRN]

New England liberal gun control foolishness.

[Organic Panic]

Great news. Now the coroner will know exactly where to pick up the body AFTER the crime has been commited.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

So are they now ahead of Oceania or not?

[1010RD]

Government is all about misallocation of capital for a political purpose.

[Black Agnes]

This technology has little to do with guns. That’s just the excuse they’re using to roll it out.

[elkfersupper]

I thought guns were already illegal there.

[Mechanicos]

Firecrackers....

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Recorded gunshots and a really nice sound system drive the man crazy.

[Redcitizen]

That sure helps the person who gets shot.

[SoConPubbie]

And it should be the responsibility of every freedom-loving citizen of Worcestor to seek out the location of the monitoring stations and destroy them.

[zeugma]

These things are not being installed to do anything about ‘crime’. It would be a good idea to identify the platforms and have plans to take them out, should the need arise.

[Gritty]

They would have better luck if they just put tracking collars on all the gang-bangers...