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Then, last year, Chicago police responding to a ShotSpotter alert fired at a teenager who was lighting fireworks. Fortunately, they missed. A 2021 report from the School of Criminal Justice and ...

Hewlett: In 2023, Lawrence Artis, a black man in his twenties, he is walking through a parking lot, law enforcement gets a ShotSpotter alert that gunshots have been fired in that particular area ...

The Little Rock Board of Directors will not renew a contract with a company that runs gunshot detector technology that has ...

The ShotSpotter alert came to us within 60 seconds.” From November 2023 to October 2024, there were “about 1100 incidents where ShotSpotter notified our officers that there were shots fired ...

Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert just after noon on Sunday along the 400 block of Hogans Street in West Palm Beach where they located an adult victim with a gunshot wound. See also ...

The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said it responded to a ShotSpotter alert at 2100 NW 73rd Street at around 8 p.m. There, they found a man who had been shot. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took the victim ...

Shakur's concerns highlight a gap in the ShotSpotter system: It's only effective at preventing gun violence if police take every alert seriously—if they do more than "listen to some shots." ...