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Public safety and other agencies responsible for protection of our Homeland have long recognized gunfire as the leading cause of crime-related death in the nation. Every day, 30 people die by gunshot in the US—one every 48 minutes1. A police officer dies from a gunshot wound every ten days2.
This is why police, sheriffs, the FBI and other public safety organizations nationwide have been using ShotSpotter Gunshot Location Systems for nearly a decade. Our systems have been responsible for decreases in gunfire ranging from 60% to 90% in areas in which systems have been deployed. Our systems were instrumental in the identification and later arrest of the Columbus, OH-area highway sniper in late 2003 and early 2004. In 2000, Bill Gates nominated ShotSpotter technology for a permanent exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution.
From Los Angeles, CA to Rochester, NY; Phoenix, AZ to Gary, IN, citizens and police officers are safer thanks to the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location Systems.
Flexible Options
ShotSpotter Gunshot Location sensors connect together either over wireless radio or wired telephone lines, with the provision to easily mix and match wired and wireless sensors. Thus, it is easy to deploy a small, wireless sensor network for tactical protection and later expand into a larger wireless—or even wired—network to cover an entire city.
Coverage areas can vary in size from roughly half a square mile all the way up to tens of square miles or hundreds of linear miles, with event notification and dispatch functionality provided either to a single station or at multiple stations or locations—or even via pager or cell phone.
ShotSpotter systems are built to provide coverage over wide areas (entire cities, groups of neighborhoods, or simply particular developments), along highways (90 miles of I-270 in Ohio, for example, during the Columbus, OH sniper investigation), or around high-profile installations (such as airports, stadiums and other public venues).
1 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States: 2002.
2 Alan Jay Fox (Northeastern University) and Marianne Zawitz, Homicide Trends in the United States, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice. |
