Seattle weighs controversial tool to detect gun violence
It’s only March, but there have already been at least 9 fatal shootings this year in Seattle. That number will certainly grow. Gun violence has become more and more common in the past few years, and while everyone agrees that’s a problem, the solutions are harder to settle on.
One controversial solution that has Mayor Bruce Harrell's support is acoustic gunshot location systems, like ShotSpotter.
Today we’ll talk with Marcus Harrison Green about this technology and the possible downsides of implementing it in Seattle.
The city is accepting public input on adopting acoustic gunshot location systems until April 12: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=RR7meOtrCUCPmTWdi1T0G4MqmZBt3AJJh59TWqhXZg9UME5XOEpFUDg1V1c5TEdYVDJXOFVYU05QMS4u
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Patricia Murphy
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Patricia Murphy is an award-winning radio journalist who has covered justice, public health, military and veterans affairs for 20 years. She’s currently the host of KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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Clare McGrane
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Clare produces KUOW’s news podcast, Seattle Now. She specializes in episodes on health, especially the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine, and occasionally produces the show’s Casual Friday episodes.
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