He notes, for instance, that the 3.5 square miles covered by ShotSpotter in Kansas City represents a little over 1% of the city's geography but includes about 20% of the city's shootings. Piza ...

ShotSpotter has been around for decades but is relatively new in Virginia. It keys on vibration the same way scientists detect earthquakes. Two local police chiefs swear by it, but some cities ...

ShotSpotter's incident-review room is like any other call centre. Analysts wearing headsets sit by computer screens, listening intently. Yet the people working here have an extraordinary ...

A sergeant of the Fresno Police Department was "ambushed" and shot Saturday after responding to a ShotSpotter call, interim police Chief Mindy Casto said. The investigation then led officers to ...

One method Detroit and other cities facing high levels of gun violence have employed is gunshot detection technology, specifically the industry-leading ShotSpotter product, which uses acoustic ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A group of Chicago aldermen is continuing to push to revive the city's ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology, two weeks after the system was taken offline. Alds. David Moore ...

(The Center Square) – Chicago Ald. Chris Taliaferro is skeptical of new city data that highlights how gunshot detection operator ShotSpotter did not alert police to at least 20% of all shootings ...

While Johnson said last month that he had "no choice" but to veto the ordinance that sought to reinstate the city's ShotSpotter program by directing Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to ...

ShotSpotter's gunshot detection technology was decommissioned in the city at midnight Monday with the expiration of the city's contract with SoundThinking, the company behind ShotSpotter.

CHICAGO — A ShotSpotter gunshot detection sensor reportedly recorded the sound of gunfire more than nine hours before an East Side neighborhood resident alerted authorities to a woman dead in an ...

This story was published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Chicago’s ShotSpotter microphones come down following years of ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — As of Sept. 23, Chicago is taking down its ShotSpotter detection technology as it just doesn’t work. Chicago’s mayor said ShotSpotter didn’t prevent crime ...