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Hospitality & Casinos

Higher Education Locations
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Higher Education Locations

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ShotSpotter Technology

How Shotspotter Works

How Shotspotter Works

ShotSpotter® enables police to provide a consistent, rapid, and precise response

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ShotSpotter Features

ShotSpotter Features

ShotCast — a tool to help you improve transparency and trust

ShotCast provides a video summary report of a shooting incidents suitable for sharing with broadcast or other news media outlets. ShotCasts are available within SoundThinking’s InSight application and includes the actual gunfire audio and other incident details.

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ShotSpotter Community and Privacy Protections

ShotSpotter Community and Privacy Protections

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Integration Services

Integration Services

ShotSpotter can multiply the value of your other technologies

Gunfire alerts can be integrated directly with multiple technology platforms for immediate benefit such as:

ShotSpotter gunfire data with lat/long and timestamp and more flow through API to partner system

RTCC/GIS

Real Time Crime Center and Geographic Information Systems - plot gunshot activity on a crime map in real time

CAD/RMS

ShotSpotter automatically transfer data to police systems so patrol officers are dispatched and records systems get updated.

VMS

Video Management Systems - ShotSpotter data will point and zoom cameras in the direction of gunfire.

Patrol Management

ShotSpotter data updates crime-risk assessment models to modify patrol missions.

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Data provides exact lat/long coordinates to enable UAVs to fly to crime scene and provide video feed.

LPR

License Plate Readers - Inform LPRs in proximity to gunfire event with time stamp to search for suspect vehicles.

Many agencies are integrating (or have integrated) ShotSpotter gunshot alert data with other platforms using our push API (Notification API), empowering law enforcement agencies across the county to achieve digital transformation. Our gunshot alert data can be integrated with license plate readers, RMS, CAD, predictive policing software,  crime dashboards, access controls, geospatial software, and drones.

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Services Available 
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Services Available 
with ShotSpotter

ShotSpotter can multiply the value of your other technologies

ShotSpotter Forensic Services and Litigation Support provides services including critical examination of ShotSpotter evidentiary data and reports to help improve understanding of a shooting incident. ShotSpotter can aid trial attorneys in their presentation of the shooting incident to a jury through the use of our forensic services and products.

One such product is the Detailed Forensic Report (DFR), a court-admissible analysis of a shooting incident captured by the ShotSpotter system that is produced by expert forensic engineers. It provides critical evidence of how, when, and where the shooting incident occurred. It furnishes demonstrative and dramatic evidence of the shooting incident by capturing the audio of the gunfire that can be replayed to a jury. This can aid in the corroboration or discrediting of other evidence for a case or investigation.

ShotSpotter Forensic Services and Litigation Support

ShotSpotter Forensic Services and Litigation Support provides services including critical examination of ShotSpotter evidentiary data and reports to help improve understanding of a shooting incident. ShotSpotter can aid trial attorneys in their presentation of the shooting incident to a jury through the use of our forensic services and products. One such product is the Detailed Forensic Report (DFR), a court-admissible analysis of a shooting incident captured by the ShotSpotter system that is produced by expert forensic engineers. It provides critical evidence of how, when, and where the shooting incident occurred. It furnishes demonstrative and dramatic evidence of the shooting incident by capturing the audio of the gunfire that can be replayed to a jury. This can aid in the corroboration or discrediting of other evidence for a case or investigation.

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Investigative Services are available to subscribing Law Enforcement agencies for incidents detected by the ShotSpotter system. For the limited police investigative purpose of supporting search warrants or officer involved shootings, this service includes a forensic examination of the data captured for the incident and documentation of that examination in the form of the Detailed Forensic Report (DFR). You can click the button below to request this service.

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Expert Witness Services are available for an incident detected by the ShotSpotter system. In addition to trial preparation and testimony, this service includes a forensic examination of the data captured for the incident and documentation of that examination in the form of the Detailed Forensic Report (DFR). ShotSpotter evidence and ShotSpotter expert witness testimony have been successfully admitted in over 400 court cases in 25 states including the District of Columbia. ShotSpotter forensic evidence has prevailed in fourteen successful Frye challenges and two successful Daubert challenges throughout the United States.

Read the letter of commendation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives about ShotSpotter’s assistance in securing a guilty verdict for an assault of a federal officer and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.

Expert Witness Services are available at a rate of $350 per hour, minimum of 5 hours. You can click the button below to request this service or email forensicinfo@soundthinking.com to learn more about Expert Witness Services and DFRs.

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SoundThinking makes and keeps certain records during the normal course of carrying out its business activity. These include Investigative Lead Summaries (ILS) and audio snippets of gunfire. A Business Record Certification, prepared by one of our Forensic Services Managers as records custodian, may allow an attorney to authenticate and introduce these records into court without having to call a witness

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ShotSpotter Results

ShotSpotter Results

ShotSpotter empowers law enforcement to save lives, respond faster, and collect critical evidence by precisely locating gunfire in near real-time.

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Respond Faster
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Oakland, CA

101
Surviving victims found without a 9-1-1 call in 2020
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Albuquerque, NM

179
Victims located and received aid over 11 months in 2022
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Chicago, IL

400
Victims found & received aid over 5 years as of 2024
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Las Vegas, NV

112
Victims found & received life-saving aid in 2023
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Pittsburgh, PA

13
Victims found and received life-saving aid from 2019-2020
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Pueblo, CO

9
Victims located and rendered life-saving aid over 2 months in 2024
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Kansas City, MO

124
Seconds faster compared to traditional calls for service (CFS)
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Chicago, IL

66
Seconds faster compared to traditional calls for service (CFS)
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Winston-Salem, NC

240
Seconds faster compared to CFS before ShotSpotter
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Richmond, CA

29
Seconds faster compared to CFS for shootings.
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Camden, NJ

102
Compared to police response times before ShotSpotter
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Durham, NC

72
Seconds faster compared to CFS for shootings.
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Las Vegas, NV

4,019
Shell casings recovered in ShotSpotter coverage area.
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Pueblo, CO

687
Shell casings recovered in the first two months of using ShotSpotter.
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Detroit, MI

257
Firearms seized with ShotSpotter alerts.
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Cape Girardeau, MO

300+
Shell casings recovered in the first year of ShotSpotter
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Columbia, SC

1,000
Shell casings recovered in the first six months of ShotSpotter
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Winston-Salem, NC

3,476
Shell casings recovered in ShotSpotter coverage area.
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Independent Research on ShotSpotter

Rigorous studies by leading independent researchers confirm ShotSpotter’s impact on public safety and law enforcement effectiveness.

Authors: Hunter M. Boehme, Marc Olson, Ian T. Adams – Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina | Cannon Fulmer – Columbia Police Department, SC

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Authors: Robert VerBruggen – fellow at the Manhattan Institute

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Authors: Jillian B. Carr, Assistant Professor of Economics in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University | Jennifer L. Doleac, Former Brookings Expert, Associate Professor of Economics – Texas A&M University, Director – Justice Tech Lab

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