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Nassau cops credit gunshot detection system

Nassau Executive Tom Suozzi holds a gun used

Photo credit: Mario Gonzalez | Nassau Executive Tom Suozzi holds a gun used by an alleged shooter caught by 'Shot Spotters' gun detection.

Since being turned on a month ago in two of Nassau County's most dangerous communities, gunshot detection sensors in Uniondale and Roosevelt have tipped off cops to the precise locations of at least four gun crimes - alerts that police brass say sped up medical care for the wounded and hastened the arrests of the shooters, the county executive announced Tuesday.

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