DC Gunshot tracking technology company opens office in DC to help police curb crime ShotSpotter helps police better respond, investigate, and prevent crime.

"As we continue working with the community to build a safer, stronger DC, ShotSpotter helps us better focus and deploy resources to save lives and get guns off our streets,” said Mayor Muriel ...

According to The Washington Post, the network has detected about 39,000 gunshots in Washington, DC over the last eight years. And gunshots are now declining on a year-to-year basis.

The launch of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system follows the Columbia Police Department, which has been using the devices since 2019. ShotSpotter’s acoustic sensors are placed on buildings ...

The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system will remain in use into next fall after its operator and Chicago agreed to a seven-month extension “followed by a two-month transition period” Friday.

ShotSpotter to vie for another Chicago deal as Mayor Brandon Johnson seeks new first responder technology ... ShotSpotter device on a light pole at the corner of 26th Street and Pulaski Avenue on ...

He regularly reports his findings on ShotSpotter’s inaccuracy and ineffectiveness on Twitter, and about a year ago, a Twitter user under the username of @slayercapital, an account that has since ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- City Council supporters of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a measure aimed at keeping it in place, but Mayor Brandon Johnson insisted ...

Most ShotSpotter-related arrests “are not severe,” the review found. Nearly one-third of those arrests weren’t tied to firearms. And there’s no year that gun violence arrests — like ...

ShotSpotter alert and 911 call locations However, ShotSpotter is controversial. Critics argue that it is unreliable, does not meaningfully improve public safety and leads to overpolicing.

ShotSpotter is set to be turned off this coming Sunday. Mayor Johnson aims to eliminate the controversial gunshot detection program, saying it's too expensive at a price of $100 million—and ...