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Reducing Gunfire Through Acoustic Technology

January 16, 2023

  • Tags:
  • case management
  • crime gun intelligence
  • investigative solutions
Gun violence is a highly-complex problem without a single solution. In cities across the country where gun crime has risen...
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Link Analysis: An Overview

By: Paul Bailey

December 19, 2022

  • Tags:
  • case management
  • tips & leads management
  • investigative solutions
In the policing domain, these data points are usually people, locations, vehicles, property, organizations, and firearms. When visualizing this information,...
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CompStat Policing: An Overview

By: Paul Bailey

December 12, 2022

  • Tags:
  • precision policing
  • community engagement
  • investigative solutions
What is CompStat? At its time, Compstat policing was a notable shift from a more reactive type of policing (that...
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Introducing Data for Good: A Community-Based Program

December 07, 2022

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  • gunshot detection
  • community safety
  • data for good
Data for Good is a community-based program that shares precision data about where and when gun violence occurs so non-law...
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Using Data to Build Safer Communities

By: Jacqueline Berkman

November 21, 2022

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  • community safety
  • precision policing
  • community engagement
ShotSpotter’s Director Community Engagement Dr. Gerard Tate was joined by Reverend Damita Davis-Howard from Ceasefire Oakland, John Bush from the...
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The Art and Science of a Gun Crime Investigation

By: Jamie Algatt

November 16, 2022

  • Tags:
  • case management
  • investigative solutions
  • crime prevention
There’s no substitute for the fresh opportunity to collect evidence, interview witnesses, and provide community support. What you do in...
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The Importance of Law Enforcement Collaboration

By: Paul Lusczynski

November 07, 2022

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  • community safety
  • precision policing
  • investigative solutions
I was one of the panelists along with former ATF Associate Deputy Director and ShotSpotter’s VP of Analytics & Forensic...
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Directed Patrol vs. Hotspot Analysis

By: Paul Lusczynski

October 24, 2022

  • Tags:
  • community safety
  • patrol management
  • community engagement
This is largely due to the increase in using data to identify problems and direct preventative efforts.  Introducing science in...
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Majority of Americans Support Acoustic Gunshot Detection

By: Jerome Filip

October 20, 2022

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  • gunshot detection
  • community safety
  • community engagement
Twelve major U.S. cities set homicide records in 2021. As yet another summer surge storms into fall, a national debate...
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Gun Violence Prevention Best Practices: Part One

By: Kevin Johnson

October 17, 2022

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  • community safety
  • crime prevention
  • precision policing
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were roughly 21,000 deaths (not counting suicides) and 41,000 injuries due to guns...
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ARPA Funding: More Money is Available to Address Rising Gun Violence

By: Phil Dailly

October 10, 2022

  • Tags:
  • crime prevention
  • precision policing
  • investigative solutions
Fighting Crime with the American Rescue Plan Act Last year, President Biden provided guidance that American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)...
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Why a Problem-Oriented Policing Approach is the Future of Patrol

By: Wendy Ethridge

October 03, 2022

  • Tags:
  • precision policing
  • community engagement
  • patrol management
And high-visibility police patrols are a proven crime deterrent. But tight budgets and staffing challenges have increasingly made staffing patrol...
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