Fort Worth, Texas-People who live and work in areas with high crime rates in Fort Worth are acquiring new technologies that can help them feel safer. 

Anita Carter has lived in the area for many years, where she volunteered to help children and the elderly provide food and other necessities. But sometimes, gunshots can hinder.

Carter said: "It's scary, it's just scary, especially when you hear it, it's booming, booming, booming." 

Carter said gunshots sounded even in broad daylight, and more frequently on weekends. She was sure that it came from people who did not live in the area. 

Carter said that sometimes she would hear gunshots in the distance, and then wait to hear the alarm. But she said that most of the time, the alarm will never happen.   

Carter's Stop Six community is where Fort Worth police rely on technology to make it safer. Recently, Flock Safety has installed security cameras designed to capture data and information on potential criminal activities in the area. 

The camera has been installed in the 5400 block of East Bailey Street. 

Flock boasted that when community-based policing programs combine equipment that captures objective evidence with machine learning to create and provide unbiased investigative leads and provide them to law enforcement agencies, crime can be reduced. 

Carter hopes that adding gunshot detection technology will also reduce the gunshots she often hears. 

"Not a resident," Carter said. "I can talk to an old man on the phone, you can hear it on the phone, bang, bang, someone outside is shooting again."

The Flock system reads the license plate on the vehicle and sends the information to the police. It is used in conjunction with gunshot detection technology. In areas where the police receive a large number of emergency calls, cameras are installed on telephone poles. The system is powered by solar panels connected to the camera. 

According to Flock Safety, contrary to popular belief, in some communities, the technology is not used when recording people.

Holly Beilin is responsible for Fock Safety communications. She hopes to stop the people in the six districts from believing that their system is not designed to invade people's privacy. 

"It records only the license plates, not people, nor passers-by," Behring said. "We think this is very important for people to understand."

Fort Worth police used the same technology in another community and achieved some good results in reducing crime. According to Flock Safety, since the end of 2020, its system has helped Fort Worth police arrest 521 people, seized 35 guns, and recovered 390 stolen vehicles. 

Fort Worth police hope to achieve the same success in the Stop Six area. 

At the city council meeting, Fort Worth Police Chief Assistant Joseph Sparrow (Joseph Sparrow) commented on the department's cooperation with Flock Safety. After using the company's technology in another community, the Fort Worth Police Department hopes to persuade the parliament to support them financially because the department is working hard to use Flock's gunshot detection technology to do more.

Gunshot detection technology will measure the acoustics of gunshots and provide law enforcement agencies with the location where the gunshots occurred, enabling police officers to react to the same area to begin investigations. 

The Fort Worth Police Department collaborated with Flock to launch a pilot program using gunshot detection technology, which has been launched in major cities across the country. 

Since Carter spends most of his time volunteering in the Stop Six area every week, there is nothing more important than feeling safe.

Carter said: "If they hear and are in the area, then they can get here immediately."  

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