LA Daily News: Noise may help fight crime

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Noise may help fight crime

Military-use loudspeakers demonstrated at Plant 42
Charles F. Bostwick, Staff Writer
LA Daily News

9/2/05

PALMDALE - Police facing rock-throwing rioters or drug dealers refusing to exit a crack house may soon have a new recourse: ultrapowerful loudspeakers designed for the U.S. military.

Created to let soldiers and sailors hail approaching vehicles or boats while still safely hundreds of yards away, the high-tech loudspeakers can also emit powerful, nerve-jarring tones that can turn back a mob or chase a gunman from his hide-out.

"We know the human brain is sensitive to certain frequencies. It's like squeaking chalk on a blackboard, or scraping your fingers across a blackboard, and everybody winces," Los Angeles County sheriff's Cmdr. Sid Heal said. "You can use it similarly to an electric broom to move the rioters out of the way."

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On Thursday, sheriff's officials along with officials from the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and even the United Kingdom gathered at Air Force Plant 42 to watch demonstrations of high-tech loudspeakers. San Diego-based American Technology Corp. showed off its Long Range Acoustic Device - a circular loudspeaker about three feet in diameter and eight inches thick - that it designed after the October 2000 suicide boat attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole.

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Four of the American Technology's loudspeakers were donated Thursday to equip a Marine Corps military police unit headed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. HPV has also offered its midsize experimental loudspeaker for use in Louisiana.

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1. Crack houses?

First where do they get the crack and second why are they in a crack house when they can use any house?