and others to urge Mayor Brandon Johnson to reactivate ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors throughout the city to pick up the sound of gunfire to dispatch officers to the location of shootings.

“ShotSpotter is an acoustic gunshot detection technology ... “We measure the time difference of arrival of sound, reaching our sensors, calculate where it originated from, and let the police ...

ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots and alert police, has been used in Chicago for several years. While some have questioned its effectiveness, others argue that it has ...

MITCHELL: Still, others complain that, because Chicago's ShotSpotter sensors were mostly in Black and Latino neighborhoods, the system contributed to overpolicing them. That caught Brandon Johnson ...

ShotSpotter uses acoustic sensors mounted on light poles, mostly on the South and West sides, to quickly alert police about the location of suspected gunfire, though critics, including the mayor, ...

The sensor assembly is equipped with a variety of optical, acoustic and seismic devices. Note the laptop computer for displays in a sensor cell. Combat forces aided by new devices find tanks and mines ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson will not veto an ordinance that would have allowed the city's top cop to negotiate a new deal to revive Chicago's controversial gunshot detection program.

Wilmington Police Department says that Monday night around 11 p.m., police responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 400 block of Gleason Road. When the police arrived, they found two males at the ...

This story was published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Chicago’s ShotSpotter microphones come down following years of ...

(The Center Square) – Chicago Ald. Chris Taliaferro is skeptical of new city data that highlights how gunshot detection operator ShotSpotter did not alert police to at least 20% of all shootings ...

A sergeant of the Fresno Police Department was "ambushed" and shot Saturday after responding to a ShotSpotter call, interim police Chief Mindy Casto said. The investigation then led officers to ...