I studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know Story by Eric L. Piza ...

In recent weeks, longstanding criticisms of ShotSpotter have intensified. Among them that the system is inaccurate, expensive and disproportionately harms people of color.

Still, for ShotSpotter’s City Council champion, Ald. David Moore, 17th, the people who got help from police after a ShotSpotter alert justify the technology’s steep cost.

CHICAGO (CBS) — ShotSpotter is now offline in Chicago. The gunshot detection system stopped sending data to police at 12:01 a.m. Monday—all despite a monthslong fight to keep the technology in ...

ShotSpotter devices to be removed starting Monday after contract expires ShotSpotter will stop transmitting its data to Chicago police at midnight barring a last minute order or invention from ...

Duke researchers find ShotSpotter effective, community still unsure. Duke researchers concluded that ShotSpotter 'performed as advertised' and one life was likely saved from the pilot phase of the ...

ShotSpotter says its accuracy is 97%, contradicting other studies . The system’s accuracy is one of its most controversial aspects, with different studies coming to wildly varied conclusions.

Holyoke police’s first ShotSpotter report from March detected 39 shots fired in and around the radius of the downtown and south Holyoke areas where the machines were installed.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo City Council has approved an extension of the city's ShotSpotter program at a reduced capacity. Earlier this month, councilwoman Theresa Morris introduced legislation to ...