As our police chief at the time, Ron Teachman, explained, “Law enforcement projects an air of omniscience. If residents hear a gunshot and don’t see an officer coming to the scene, they don’t think it’s because we don’t know about it. They assume we know about it, and that we’re not there because we don’t care.” With the new technology, officers appeared on the scene of shootings we simply didn’t know about before. And gains in police legitimacy could be achieved by using the community policing method of “knock and talk” in concert with the technology. When the system detected gunshots in a
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