More than 170 law enforcement agencies have sought help in the form of ShotSpotter, according to SoundThinking, the California-based company that sells the technology. The gunshot detection system ...

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 is used by law enforcement agencies to detect and locate gunfire, but its effectiveness and cost have been questioned. The debate over ShotSpotter's effectiveness and value continues ...

The debate over the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system is a classic case of unintended consequences when politics, rather than facts, guides policy. The three major players — the mayor ...

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 ...