Many of our individual activities leave behind a digital trail. Cell phone activities. Credit cards. Social media engagement. Website clicks. Today, our digital trails have become so expansive that people are more conscious of privacy issues than ever before. Just because you share personal information through the devices you use every day—like ordering groceries online, […]
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Why We Need Gun Violence Trauma Intervention
Recent research from Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia highlighted a troubling truth: Exposure to gun violence trauma is associated with higher rates of mental health-related emergency department visits by children. In the study, a child is considered exposed to gun violence when they live within 4-5 blocks of a shooting reported within 60 […]
ShotSpotter®’s Important Role in Improving Public Safety
Twelve major cities set homicide records this year. And yet more than 80 percent of gunshots are not reported to 9-1-1, leaving our most vulnerable communities ignored and their sons, brothers, uncles and fathers left to die as gunshot victims when a prompt response by first responders might have saved them. We cannot ignore this […]
Improving the Relationship Between Police and Community
The relationship between police and community centers around a complex and deeply rooted social contract that will take concentrated effort and time to piece back together. But there are some actionable steps police can take to start improving relations. #1. Identify Areas Experiencing the Highest Level of Trauma & Gun Violence Unaddressed trauma magnifies the […]
Police-Community Relations: A Historical Overview
To start improving police-community relations, we must get to the root of the problem, which is mistrust because of a broken social contract. A Broken Social Contract In policing, a social contract has always existed. Community members agree to give up certain liberties in exchange for service—that is, protection. Citizens sacrifice some individual freedom to […]
Bolster Police-Community Engagement with ShotSpotter®
Police-community engagement is now recognized as an important part of every law enforcement agency’s mission to better connect and collaborate with the public, and to improve participation in problem-solving endeavors.
SoundThinking’s™ Response to Associated Press Article
Update: The Associated Press has joined a growing list of media outlets that have retracted, corrected, or clarified their reporting related to a demonstrably false claim originating from VICE Media. The false assertion that we altered the location of a gunshot incident at the request of police in a high-profile murder case in Chicago was […]
Our Commitment to Reducing Gun Violence
To our SoundThinking Customers and Communities: Over the past 25 years, SoundThinking has been at the forefront of providing tools that have proven to help protect some of our most vulnerable communities. Our acoustic gunshot detection service quickly identifies, locates and alerts police to criminal gunfire. Without these alerts, police are left hoping for a […]
Social Distancing & Policing During COVID-19
Due to the nature of a police officer’s job, social distancing looks a bit different than your average citizen situation. While always maintaining a high level of situational awareness, here are a few different scenarios and recommended protocols to follow in the field.
Protecting First Responders and Civilians
In February 2019, the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) announced that they were running out of funding and will have to cut payouts to victims. Resources are dwindling, but the number of victims claiming for family member deaths and toxin-related illnesses is still growing. What is going on, and what can be done to prevent further damage?