Project CeaseFire - South Carolina (ATF testing gunfire detection system for domestic use)

The National Institute of Justice ^ | Bart Coghill

[Between the Lines]

The Justice Department's Safe Neighborhoods Project CeaseFire - South Carolina is an innovative pilot program based on new technology as well as traditional law enforcement concepts, designed to reduce gun violence in designated areas. To achieve this goal, four component parts operate in mutual support.

The first component, a unified law enforcement task force, consists of Federal, state and local prosecutors and law enforcement officers closely coordinated with Weed and Seed and tactical police units operating within targeted urban areas. The task force aggressively investigates and prosecutes firearms violations in the federal court system, seeking meaningful consequences for violators using or possessing firearms illegally.

Incident analysis and mapping comprise the second component. Task force members will gather and collate data relating to violent crimes, firearms offenses and drug related incidents from relevant Uniform Crime Reports, Computer-Aided Dispatch reports, and other reports and statistical information compiled with the assistance of the various cooperating jurisdictions. This information will be automated to create a comprehensive area crime analysis map, with an overlay of related drug trafficking activity. Regular coordination meetings with analysts from all concerned agencies will be conducted. This component will enable the task force to correlate hot spots of criminal activity with concentrations of firearm violations, highlighting specific areas for resource allocation.

The third component is a state-of-the-art gunfire detection system. This technology consists of acoustical devices, which specifically identify gunfire by screening out other similar sounds (such as automobile backfires and firecrackers) and triangulating to provide a specific geographical location within 20 to 40 feet. The information is instantly displayed on a computerized map and reaction teams in targeted areas are notified to immediately respond to the location. The system can be linked to a computer generated call out system, which alerts surrounding residences or business that gunfire has occurred, and may permit citizens to confidentially report information about the shooting.

Advertising through print, radio, and television media, partnerships with Weed and Seed initiatives, and aggressive community outreach and education to deter individuals from carrying or using weapons illegally, will comprise the fourth component.

A pilot program testing various elements of the effort has been instituted in the Charleston Division of the South Carolina U.S. Attorney's Office. As the project develops, these efforts will be expanded until the entire state of South Carolina is covered. Technical assistance in each of the various aspects is being provided by NLECTC-Southeast.

[Between the Lines]

Related article: ATF homes in on gun offenses in South Carolina

[Vigilantcitizen]

Bang!

[laker_dad]

Will the DNR use it to catch poachers, too?

[upchuck]

BIG Brother, can you spare a dime?

[Between the Lines]

Not today but if they are extending the system to the entire state I am sure they will one day.

[Paul C. Jesup]

(sarcasm) I wonder if the ATF's new motto is: To send every good honest taxpaying america to their graves.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Advertising through print, radio, and television media, partnerships with Weed and Seed initiatives, and aggressive community outreach and education'

And HOW MUCH will this self promotion waste? The ATF should not be spending millions of taxpayer money on propaganda. They have no right to do this, IMO.

Why don't they just put a camera in each taxpayer's home and get it over with? Or, attach a chip to each gun that works like a black box?

After WACO, I view the ATF as an anti US citizen org.

[ladyrustic]

Oh great. You mean someday soon I'll be out plinking cans in the woods only to be surrounded by the black-booted, hooded ATF agents from hell?

Yikes. Our freedom is draining away, drop by drop.

[Between the Lines]

And HOW MUCH will this self promotion waste?

Well you will not like this news then. Project Ceasefire is a part of project safe neighborhoods and they are using Johnnie Cochran as a spokesperson. His advice for felons caught with guns: "Not even I can get you off."

[Between the Lines]

South Carolina is not the only place that has project CeaseFire. It was first started up your way in Boston. It is big in Kansas City Mo, and in Savannah. I could not find the names of the other 35 cities that have project CeaseFire. I do not think that they have the gunfire detection system in other places besides South Carolina. At least I wasn't able to find out if they had it.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Project Ceasefire is a part of project safe neighborhoods and they are using Johnnie Cochran as a spokesperson."

I rest my case. They will blow an expense account like Bob Torricelli.

[Comus]

I agree with you. If the ATF were going after ethnic gangs operating across state lines, they might have a reason to exist. Instead they entrap people like Randy Weaver to get their help investigating white supremacy groups. I guess it's not what you are doing that matters, but what you are thinking.

[coloradan]

After WACO, I view the ATF as an anti US citizen org.

Killing almost every member of a religious sect by shooting the adults and gassing and burning to death the children, except for a few who were blown to bits by a bomb, and then lying about it in court and on the original warrant, which you didn't even bring on the initial raid, may be a thankless job, but someone's got to do it. Especially when you don't want to arrest the leader of the group when he goes jogging or shopping.

Now really! Far from being specifically anti-US, the BATFE is typical of the numerous FLEAs that now cover our nation and take bites out of crime. (FLEA is Federal Law Enforcement Agency, in case you were wondering.)

[Constitution Day]

BANG!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Read an accurate account of what the ATF did and didn't do at WACO and you will be shocked.

They recently added another initial to their name, to signify some other power they are usurping. I can't remember the details.

[Joe Brower]

Soon coming to your neighborhood!

Gee, don'tcha just feel safer already?

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

They did a pilot of this program in St. Louis this last New Years eve, even called it the same name...

[Wolfie]

Sounds the same as traffic cameras, or video surveillance.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually our city is safer with this system or a similiar one.

However, ATF, FBI nor even any California state enforcement agency were not involved.

About 4-5 years ago thanks to the flood of illegal aliens and their teenage spawn, our city was having drive by shootings about every night. The boiling point was reached with a fatality and several kids in the hospital with severe wounds including some who were waiting for a bus and weren't gang members.

This system or similiar system was bought and put into action. All street cops were trained with AR 15's and qualified. They were requaled with their pistols and the Remington 870's.

Shortly after the mobile system went inaction. There was a shootout involving the two main gangs. A female cop came on the scene, got her AR 15 out and had all the gang members laying on the pavement, soiling their pants and praying that a male cop got there to save them. These brave gang bangers were happy when male cops showed up to handcuff and arrest them.

All of the gang leaders and those with guns were tried and went to jail. One of their guns had been used in a fatal drive by. Those involved in that are still in jail for a long time. What was interesting was that one of the leaders was a white/rich spoiled kid. When he gets out of jail, he will not be a kid anymore.

There were a couple of other gang gun fights, and within minutes the shooters and others were arrested. We haven't had a problem with the gangs shooting for a few years.