They certainly are discussed a lot at length in the wake of school shootings. Mark Keierleber: It's these new forms of high tech, what appear to be basically metal detectors… and metal detectors play a role in the school security conversation. Jennifer: Basically, that product is a microphone on a light pole that’s meant to detect the sound of a gunshot. I mean, Shot Spotter is a big one and it exists in communities across the United States, especially major cities. Mark Keierleber: Certainly there are all kinds of other forms of weapons detection on the market. It's able to recognize, um, everything around you and basically predict crime before it happens.īut we’re moving to a world where cameras are active… with AI that makes real time assessments and predictions. Um, so if you've ever seen the movie Minority Report, the idea here is that, in Minority Report, you're, you're being constantly followed by different forms of surveillance. Artificial intelligence to help law enforcement stop crime before it starts or escalates, like Minority Report but in real life, is becoming a reality. Mark Keierleber: Well, I'm gonna read you the quote. Jennifer: After the Parkland shooting, Reporter Mark Keierleber says he was getting all kinds of pitches from tech companies about everything from metal detectors to those bulletproof backpacks… and he says someone from Athena reached out with a quote that really stayed with him. You'll see the image and then you can pull open the video if you like. It shows the alert on the right hand side, it pops into Avigilon. Soon as the camera sees the weapon on the lower left hand corner. Instructor: So what you see here is a person entering with a weapon. Jennifer: Fever detection technology took off during covid, and though it’s far from foolproof… it’s probably here to stay. And if a person has the fever walking in front of the camera, it'll send the same exact alert. Of course, this can also work with our fever detection platform. Instructor: Upper left hand corner is our alerting platform and in the right you're gonna see the person entering with a gun. Jennifer: This is taken from a demo the company posted on YouTube. What you see in the bottom left hand corner is the live video feed. Jennifer: That product comes from a company called Athena Security… which makes a variety of weapons detection products. And it would say, like it would detect the gun and the speakers would, like, a robot would come across the speakers and say “warning, we have detected a gun please be advised that law enforcement is on the way.” There's one company that was marketing a gun detection system a few years ago where it was also equipped with speakers in the hallway. Mark Keierleber: So the idea is they've programmed the cameras to identify what, you know, a gun looks like in terms of its shape. It would pump hundreds of millions of dollars into a program started in response to previous school shootings. Schools that use the kinds of technologies he reports on to try to prevent gun violence… could benefit from a bill introduced by Congress in June. Jennifer: But he says the real focus in school security is on using AI and other tech to find weapons. There's basically anything that you can think about inside of a school… has been redesigned in the last few years to be bulletproof. There are bulletproof shields that are designed to hang in a classroom next to the fire extinguisher. Mark Keierleber: There are bulletproof backpacks.
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