ShotSpotter sensors, installed in more than 90 cities around the country, are essentially laptop computers with microphones on them. In New York City, they sit atop buildings in high-crime areas.

ShotSpotter left sensors in Indianapolis, San Diego, and San Antonio after the cities ended their contracts, internal emails suggest. ShotSpotter sells its software, not the sensors themselves.

A ShotSpotter sensor located near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park and Recreation Center on Skyline Drive / Photo by Brittany Cruz-Fejeran. As San Diego nears the end of its $1 million ...

ShotSpotter, an audio technology designed to detect gunshots, is facing criticism over what some call over-policing in minority communities. Critics doubt the system's accuracy and say sensors are ...

According to the file, which includes the geographic coordinates of each ShotSpotter microphone, sensors can be found in 84 metropolitan areas and 34 states or territories in the United States.

CHICAGO — Barring a last-minute extension, the company behind the ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology says work will begin Monday on the removal of sensors around the city. The City Council ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago Police say shootings dropped in two districts in March -- and they credit that drop, in part, to new strategies and technology. In this original report, CBS 2's Mai ...

Indy’s ShotSpotter pilot is over, so why are the sensors still there? (A SoundThinking sensor is seen on a residential garage Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, on the near east side of Indianapolis.

ShotSpotter’s acoustic sensors are placed on buildings and lampposts. If a gunshot is fired in the area, multiple sensors pick up the sound and the pinpoint location is calculated by the time it ...

ShotSpotter, developed by technology company SoundThinking, uses sensors installed in locations around a city that employ microphones, a machine-learning algorithm and human evaluators to detect ...

SOMERVILLE — For a decade, a network of ShotSpotter sensors has been listening in on Somerville, waiting to hear pops of gunshots. Some of the devices are perched out of view atop buildings.