As ShotSpotter already maintains a high accuracy rate, we are also able to maintain an extremely low false positive rate, at just 0.5% across all customers in the last four years, according to independent analytics firm Edgeworth Analytics. ShotSpotter’s accuracy allows police to coordinate safe and efficient responses that require fewer resources in a way […]

It is erroneous to assume that the failure to find physical evidence at a ShotSpotter alert location means that an alert was “inaccurate.” Many gunfire incidents, particularly in urban environments, may not leave physical recoverable evidence that first responders can locate and recover. For example, shooters may remove shell casings, police may arrive after a […]

While the ShotSpotter system detects many loud, impulsive sounds, we use sophisticated technology and well-known science to filter out sounds that are not likely to be gunfire. Those non-gunfire sounds are not published to customers as gunfire. ShotSpotter technology has a 97% accuracy rate for detections across all police department customers nationwide for the last […]

The Journal of Urban Healthy Study, the source of this claim, has some significant procedural flaws. In this case, the study considered data from across entire counties, whereas ShotSpotter coverage areas typically only cover a small portion of counties. Because ShotSpotter sensors do not detect and report gunfire incidents outside the coverage area where they […]

ShotSpotter is a vital tool in any city’s toolbox to assist law enforcement in delivering efficient, effective, and equitable responses to criminal gunfire. That being said, it would be a mistake to frame ShotSpotter’s greatest purpose as a system solely used to lead to arrests and reduce crime. What gunshot detection technology has proven to […]