Bang, Boom, Pop — Gunshot?
ShotSpotter, Inc. is a private company that sells noise-detection technology, with no known significant impact on violent crime, to police departments across the country. Research in cities to date shows:
- ShotSpotter does not have a significant impact on gun violence
- ShotSpotter rarely finds actionable evidence of a gun crime
- ShotSpotter increases the number of high-stress interactions between police and innocent civilians
- ShotSpotter wastes millions of taxpayer dollars