How is ShotSpotter performing after eight months of use?
In April, former Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings announced the ShotSpotter surveillance system would be used to locate the direction of gunshots in high-crime areas. Eight months later the program is still being evaluated by police. (Yolanda Jones/Daily Memphian)
ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, has been in Memphis for eight months and has alerted police to 2,093 instances of gunfire. Is the system deterring gun crime? It’s too early to tell, police say.
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Yolanda Jones covers criminal justice issues and general assignment news for The Daily Memphian. She previously was a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.
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