More shots, one call
In an Aug. 18 story about crime in New Orleans, The Associated
Press, relying on information from a University of New Orleans
criminologist, erroneously reported that university researchers
conducted an experiment in 2004 in which police fired 700 blank rounds
in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon and that no one
called to report the gunfire.
Instead, about 900
rounds of live ammunition were fired by officers over a two-day period
in December 2003 during a demonstration of a gunshot detection system
for the New Orleans Police Department, said George Orrinson, of
Planning Systems Inc., an engineering and technology company
demonstrating the system. Orrinson said the company was told by police
that one public call came in about the gunfire. Link
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