ShotSpotter technology already hitting its target for police in Cincinnati

ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology, has been implemented in Cincinnati, Ohio for just one week and is already showing positive results for police. A recent shooting in the Avondale area of Cincinnati, Ohio, was recently helped solved by the ShotSpotter technology that had been installed. Of the incident, LTC Paul Neudigate tweeted:
https://twitter.com/PaulNeudigate/status/898360964382433280 For a city with a crime rate 225% higher than the national average, this is a startlingly positive sign after just a week of use. I’m sure city officials knew ShotSpotter would be effective, but they perhaps didn’t understand just how effective. The technology, which is also used in Jacksonville, Florida and areas of New York, uses microphones located around the city that detect the sound of gunshots. These sounds are then put to review by an Incident Review Center [IRC] for human assessment to confirm the machines classification. All of this takes just 30 – 45 seconds from trigger pull.