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White House Exploring Whether Smartphones Can Help Predict Mass Shootings

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The White House is looking into a controversial idea — tracking the phone activity of people with mental illness to try to see if and when someone will become violent.

Here & Now's Femi Oke speaks with William Wan (@thewanreport), national correspondent for the Washington Post.

This segment aired on September 13, 2019.

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