Seattle weighs controversial tool to detect gun violence

It’s only March, but there have been at least 9 fatal shootings already in the city.

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.

Today we’ll talk with Marcus Harrison Green about one solution proposed by the Mayor: Surveillance technology that alerts police to the sound of gunshots.

The city is accepting feedback on audio gunshot location systems through April 12: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=RR7meOtrCUCPmTWdi1T0G4MqmZBt3AJJh59TWqhXZg9UME5XOEpFUDg1V1c5TEdYVDJXOFVYU05QMS4u

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