Today, law enforcement has a wide variety of technology tools at their disposal to help investigate, and sometimes even thwart, a crime. One of those tools, Facial Recognition Software (FRS), has been getting a lot of attention as of late. Much of this attention is due to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors’ recent ban, preventing police from using this technology. Why?
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Fighting the Scourge of Blast Fishing
SoundThinking™ has two environmental initiatives which have shown great technical promise – protecting rhinos in Africa from poaching and locating blast fishing (a.k.a. dynamite fishing) in the tropics. The poaching initiative will be discussed in another blog while protecting tropical reefs and communities from blast fishing is discussed here. Blast fishing, scarcely known in Europe […]
Engage Your Community to Prevent Celebratory Gunfire
As New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, our SoundThinking Incident Review Center (IRC) team is busy prepping for one of the busiest nights (and weekend) of the year. Illegal celebratory gunfire happens in many cities across the country and the dangers of celebratory gunfire are real, and can be fatal. What goes up must come […]