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For the past three years, an unidentifiable amount of security cameras equipped to detect the sounds of gunfire have given Cleveland police slightly increased response times to shooting incidents but ...

A Detroit Police Department employee in the Real Time Crime Center examines live monitoring, including a map of ShotSpotter alerts. Nov. 24, 2025. When gunfire rips through some Detroit neighborhoods, ...

CLEVELAND — The city of Cleveland's use of ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system in place since 2020, is up for discussion as Cleveland City Council’s Safety Committee prepares for a special hearing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Growing national research shows that the gunshot detection system used in Cleveland helps police respond to shootings but does little to reduce crime or improve case outcomes. A new ...

The gunshot detection system uses acoustic sensor microphones placed in designated areas to identify and locate gunfire and notify police within 60 seconds. Over a year after its deployment across the ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — On Friday, Cleveland City Council, the Department of Public Safety and the company known as Sound Thinking met at a safety meeting to review findings from a two-year study by ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma Police Department has abandoned plans to implement a trial run of a gunshot detection system in a neighborhood that has faced challenges with crime. This comes about a year ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — City staff are asking West Palm Beach’s City Commission to pay a man $85,000 to settle a lawsuit related to the police department’s response to a “ShotSpotter call” in 2023, ...

Over a year after its deployment across the city, Utica Police Chief Mark Williams reflected on the department’s use of the ShotSpotter detection system. The gunshot detection system uses acoustic ...