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News The Watchdogs: Chicago Cops Playing Catch-Up on Gunfire Sensors.

Crime Lab The Watchdogs: Chicago Cops Playing Catch-Up on Gunfire Sensors

Chicago Sun-Times / February 17, 2017
By Frank Main

In 2012, the Chicago Police Department installed ShotSpotter gunfire sensors in the high-crime Englewood District on the South Side and Harrison District on the West Side.

But the city has only recently moved to take full advantage of the crime-fighting technology, variations of which have long been the stuff of TV shows and movies.

It wasn’t until last fall that the department began to integrate officers’ mobile computer terminals with the ShotSpotter system. Before that, Chicago cops had to wait for ShotSpotter alerts to come over their police radios.

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17 February 2017

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