ShotSpotter News

Police surveillance cameras can make civil libertarians queasy. But what if cops could listen for dangerous crime instead of watching? Enter ShotSpotter , a Mountain View, Calif., company that has installed microphones on telephone poles in 45 cities and counties across the U.S. with few complaints from local citizens.

Pittsburgh City Council today began weighing the purchase of a system that can identify the site of a gunshot down to the street address -- at a cost of a few hundred thousand dollars per square mile.

The ShotSpotter is a high - tech piece of gear that can identify and locate in real time gunshots and Pittsburgh City Council is considering spending thousands of dollars on it.

The police department's new gunshot-detection system led cops to a woman who was still holding a recently fired handgun, police said.

A device used to track down criminals involved in gang wars in America could soon be used in Manchester - making it the first city to have it in the UK.

ShotSpotter sensors were slated to be installed on electrical poles in a one-square-mile area in a north Oak Cliff neighborhood.

Plans to test a high-tech crime-fighting tool in Dallas have hit an electrifying snag.

Gunmen let loose with a barrage of gunfire behind a building on Sherman Parkway as a roomful of police officers looked on - with satisfaction.

At Second and Harrison streets in South Troy Thursday night, candles burned on the sidewalk as helium balloons floated above them, bouncing off an empty vodka bottle lying side-by-side with a bottle that once held blackberry-flavored brandy.

For anyone who has the idiotic urge to fire guns into the air for no apparent reason, don't do it in Glendale -- or at least get the hell out of there after you do.

Pittsburgh City Council is considering legislation to take bids on an automated system that uses sensors to recognize gunshots and call 911 to report their location.

A Southwest Side alderman wants audio gunshot sensors installed across the city to help dispatch officers to shooting scenes - and would like for the public to be able to view the live surveillance videos from the police department's blue-light cameras.

When a 24-year-old man was shot behind a fast-food restaurant in New Haven, Conn., last week, officers responded even though no one called 911.

Los Angeles resident Curtis Baxter, the 28-year-old man who was shot in the right side of his stomach at 31 Whalley Ave.

An interesting webinar is on the horizon for those interested in leveraging Google Earth and Oracle Spatial for situational awareness.

Gunshots will ring out in the city tonight. However, these disruptions are planned and fully endorsed by city police as part of the setup of their ShotSpotter program.

The ShotSpotter is a new tool used by the New Haven Police Department; it is designed to track down gunfire quickly and it could end up saving lives.

The family of a woman gunned down at a Richmond gas station Friday night is pleading for city leaders to take action.

The gunshots echoed in a Richmond neighborhood. Police officers responding to another call nearby paused when they heard shots go off, but they couldn't tell where the shots came from.

Gunshot detectors have helped police in suburban New York to pinpoint the locations of shootings and make arrests.