“I’m without 15 officers is a huge amount for Salinas. I have to use technology to augment what we do, to keep my community safe. I need this technology to keep us safe,” said Salinas Police Chief Filice. Community members agreed, and have seen the positive effects of ShotSpotter. “If...
“Before ShotSpotter it was a wild goose chase. We would come to an area and look for whatever we could find, and usually not very successful,” said Captain Steve Cerveny. Cpt. Cerveny runs the Criminal Investigations Division at the Omaha Police Department. “Overwhelmingly, we are able to locate evidence more...
A recent ShotSpotter alert helped deputies respond to a scene in less than a minute and make an arrest. Deputies were dispatched to the scene within 5 seconds – and the first deputy got to the location in just 41 seconds, the sheriff’s office says.
“When we look at how many shootings did we have, and what location are those shootings at, if 70 percent are in this area, then that’s the area we need to be focused on.” Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew told News 3. “We’re not picking on a particular entity,...
ShotSpotter technology alerts police to gunfire even when no one calls 911. They’ve found 85 percent of the time, no one calls. Police said the system helps them to solve cases and to develop better strategies. It helps them get to the scene faster to get a jump start on their...
Seconds matter when there’s a gunshot wound victim. Trauma surgeon Dr. Anna Goldenberg-Sandau from Cooper Health analyzed nine years of gun violence data from Camden, NJ, and uncovered that ShotSpotter “identified and assisted gunshot victims who would otherwise not receive life-saving help.” Since ShotSpotter’s implementation, Camden experienced its lowest crime...
What is wrong is to call all alerts without immediate evidence of a crime “false positives.” This implies the alert was not gunfire, though it most likely was. My evaluation in St. Louis has been frequently cited in the media as evidence that ShotSpotter does not reduce crime, but my...
When it came time for those of us combatting gun violence to put plans into action, we were intent on doing everything we could. And we are. That is why one tool we use is ShotSpotter – a technology that uses sound sensors to get police quickly to gunshot locations....
Sixty percent of U.S. adults back the use of gunshot detection technology in general, and that support increases to 66 percent for its use by law enforcement and 65 percent for national security agencies, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
“Even if we don’t find the casings, we’ll have the video on the block. And we’ll see the person who were they with? What color was there? Who were they arguing with? Countless countless times [ShotSpotter] helps and puts a narrative to a story where without it, you would have...