Somerville, Massachusetts, is one of several small cities that get ShotSpotter free because it's part of the Metro-Boston Homeland Security Region and receives the Department of Homeland Security ...

Jessica Rinaldi // The Boston Globe via Getty Images Dozens of cities are paying for gunshot detection tech they may not need I n June 2023, the town council in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, voted ...

The city government of Little Rock, Arkansas, recently dumped ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection tool that's been adopted by ...

After Mayor Brandon Johnson made good on his campaign promise to deactivate the controversial ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, he wavered in the face of opposition and directed his ...

The city government of Little Rock, Arkansas, recently dumped ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection tool that's been adopted by some crime-troubled cities, but which has long been controversial.

When ShotSpotter’s acoustic sensors detect a gunshot, the sound is fed through a computer algorithm that determines the approximate location. The technology has given parish law enforcement ...

“The shots were detected by ShotSpotter, which is a technology that detects the sound of gunshots and is able to triangulate where the gunshots occurred. Once shots are detected, officers are ...