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!
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>     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!"
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>     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?
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>     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!)
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>     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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