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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Mayor Brandon Johnson made good on his campaign promise to deactivate the controversial ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, he wavered in the face of opposition and directed his ...

The calls were two reports of a shooting, one "shots fired" call and one ShotSpotter alert. ShotSpotter is a system of sensors that captures the sound of gunfire and pinpoints its location.

When ShotSpotter’s acoustic sensors detect a gunshot, the sound is fed through a computer algorithm that determines the approximate location. The technology has given parish law enforcement ...