ShotSpotter changed its name, but no matter what it’s called, the gunshot detection system must go ShotSpotter has rebranded itself as SoundThinking, but it’s still a false solution to Chicago ...

Antioch adds ShotSpotter gun detection, alert system ... around the country but mostly in the western states and in California.” The cost of the system and subscription is $1,410,000 plus a ...

FILE - ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clark stands for a portrait at one of the company's facilities in Newark, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug, 10, 2021. Clark has said that the system’s machine classifications ...

ShotSpotter, the company behind the controversial gunshot-detection software used by the Chicago Police Department, announced on Monday a new corporate name as its future here remains uncertain.

ShotSpotter installed its first sensors in Redwood City, California, in 1996, and for years relied solely on local 911 dispatchers and police to review each potential gunshot until adding its own ...

A working paper from Ph.D. candidates at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that the flood of ShotSpotter alerts in Chicago resulted in longer police response times — and thus ...

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Addressing complaints of ShotSpotter's cost, Chittum said that the alert system's ability to save lives is worth the price tag. "I think, personally, it's hard to put a price tag on a human life ...

Since 2019, Columbus has used ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system sold by SoundThinking, a public safety technology company based in California, to alert police to gunshots.

The second phase of the system begins with the data being sent to ShotSpotter's 24x7 Incident Review Center in California, where analysts determine if the sound was gunfire.

ShotSpotter uses artificial intelligence and hundreds of always-on hidden microphones to listen for gunshots and alert a command center in California when possible gunfire is heard.

Over the past decade, Pittsburgh has sunk nearly $10 million into ShotSpotter, the most widely used gunshot-detection system in America. The controversial crime-fighting technology uses sound to ...