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.

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 ...

It's Morning Edition on 90.7 WFAE and WFAE.org I'm Marshall Terry. In the past decade several North Carolina cities, including Charlotte, have stopped using the gunshot detection technology known ...

SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — As the Trump administration ramps up efforts to crack down on immigration, communities in Southern Arizona, particularly in South Tucson, are grappling with ...

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 ...

In June 2023, the town council in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, voted unanimously to install the gunshot detection service ShotSpotter. The town would get the system up and running in a few square ...