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Gunshot Detection

Computer experts and police in California are trying military technology in troubled neighborhoods to track down gunshots. Too often residents direct police to the sound of gunshots. Reporter Chris Arnold in San Francisco says the experimental system employs an array of microphones to locate the source of a gunshot and immediately relays the information to police.

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