The city government of Little Rock, Arkansas, recently dumped ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection tool that's been adopted by some crime-troubled cities, but which has long been controversial.

After Mayor Brandon Johnson made good on his campaign promise to deactivate the controversial ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, he wavered in the face of opposition and directed his ...

The lot is located in one of three high gun violence areas in the city, and just four days earlier, it had been outfitted with the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter. As Artis passed in ...

It's Morning Edition on 90.7 WFAE and WFAE.org I'm Marshall Terry. In the past decade several North Carolina cities, including Charlotte, have stopped using the gunshot detection technology known ...

The city board fell short by one vote to renew its contract with SoundThinking Inc., the company that operates ShotSpotter, an “acoustic gunshot detection technology” that the company says ...

When ShotSpotter’s acoustic sensors detect a gunshot, the sound is fed through a computer algorithm that determines the approximate location. The technology has given parish law enforcement ...

Arguments for and against were made to the Little Rock Board of Directors on Tuesday as they debated on whether or not the city should renew a $188,000 contract for ShotSpotter Technology.

“The shots were detected by ShotSpotter, which is a technology that detects the sound of gunshots and is able to triangulate where the gunshots occurred. Once shots are detected, officers are ...