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untanglingwebs
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There has been no new mention of this technology since it was announced last November!
Friday, November 18, 2011Flint To Implement ShotSpotter Technology As A New Tool In The Fight Against Gun Violence
On Thursday, November 17, Flint Mayor Dayne Walling announced details of a new unique partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and SST, Inc., the world leader and innovator in wide-area acoustic surveillance and gunfire location and alert technology, to subscribe to SST’s ShotSpotter Flex™ solution to detect and locate gunfire incidents and gather gunfire intelligence in its effort to fight crime and gun violence. The Flint Housing Commission is also part of this very important partnership.
The Flint Police Department will use the ShotSpotter Flex service for real-time and immediate gunshot location data, enabling informed decisions for faster and more accurate emergency response, while improving situational intelligence and increasing first responder safety. The ShotSpotter gunfire alert data and intelligence will also provide the Flint Police Department with more forensic evidence leading to more thorough investigations and increased prosecutions for gun-related crime. The data also enhances crime analysis and predictive policing capabilities, helping improve public safety and security.
The City of Flint, along with state and federal officials and community leaders are committed to making Flint a safer community and have initiated this unique partnership to reduce Flint’s gun violence and crime. Funding for this project is coming from several sources in partnership with the City; however, no City funds are being used in this phase of the project. In the partnership, the Flint Police Department will receive the critical gunfire data provided by the ShotSpotter Flex solution and enabled by SST’s sensor infrastructure. The technology will be deployed in areas with high concentrations of illegal gunfire and the Flint Police Department will use the newly attainable data for its strategic and tactical policing operations, crime analysis, investigations, and prosecutorial efforts.
“This partnership is vitally important to helping improve the safety and security of Flint’s residents. We recognize the challenges we’re experiencing with gun violence and its impact on the quality of life for our citizens and the vitality of our community. To be able to do this now without using any City funds is an exceptional opportunity,” said Mayor Walling. “We’re particularly excited about the ShotSpotter Flex solution and expect it to be a great enhancement to our policing initiatives and provide our officers with the information they need to respond faster to gunfire, investigate illegal gun use, and effectively help catch and prosecute perpetrators.”
“We’re confident that our use of the ShotSpotter Flex solution will have a tremendous impact on our efforts to reduce gun violence and illegal gunfire in Flint,” said Flint Chief of Police Alvern Lock. “It is important that law-abiding members of the community know that we are committed to keeping their communities safe from gun violence. It’s equally important for those who commit acts of gun violence to know that we will now have the intelligence to detect gunfire and if they fire a gun illegally, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The ShotSpotter Flex technology is expected to be fully operational in Flint in early 2012
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Posted by City Speak - The official blog of the City of Flint at 11/18/2011 10:43:00 AM 0 comments:
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:21 pm |
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brianstarr
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| well im guessing whatever funding they had for the shotspotter has probably been used for something other than what is supposed to be used for and im guessing it was probably used to cover payroll since the city cant support itself anymore so they have to take the money out of other accounts or it has slipped into peoples pockets at city hall |
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:59 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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Flint to get ShotSpotter gunshot tracking system
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 2:22 PM EDT Updated: Dec 01, 2011 2:24 PM EST
By Tom Plahutnik, Web Editor/Producer - emai
FLINT, Mich. -
Flint Mayor Dayne Walling told TV5 that the city is getting a ShotSpotter system to help cut down on crime.
The announcement was made during TV5's Ask the Mayor segment at noon on Thursday.
"We'll continue to bring as many partnerships to the table as we can with the Michigan State Police and the U.S. Attorney's office," said Walling. "But now we have an additional technology
that we're going to be able to install with a new partnership that won't cost the city any money. The ShotSpotter technology that's been in use in Saginaw for a number of years -- we're going to bring that to Flint."
The technology uses several microphones to detect and monitor gunfire. When Saginaw installed the units, their locations were concealed for security reasons. Saginaw purchased both systems with help of federal grants over the last two years.
Authorities said the first ShotSpotter system cut crime in Saginaw by more than 30 percent.
"Those shots will be sent automatically to our in-car computers and we'll be able to get a response working with the Michigan State Police and other partners, so we're really going to be cracking down on illegal guns and the shots fired that too often have escalated into tragic homicides," Walling said.
Stay with WNEM.com and TV5 as we learn |
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:32 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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| I am told Lock was to select the sites. Perhaps he can't decide. |
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:33 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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There have been numerous 911 reports of officers reporting shots fired. Happened again last night in the 900 block of Ingleside. Sometimes the police can catch them and sometimes they cannot pinpoint the origin of the shots.
Last night there were shots fired into an occupied home on Marengo. Shots are being fired on a regular basis in the city. When I report shot fired and can report the direction or vicinity of the shots, they still report the shots at my address.
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Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:19 am |
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Cornbread Maxwell
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| I wonder how all the fireworks around here would affect those devices. |
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Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:44 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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| According to the news report out of Saginaw, the shot spotter can tell the difference between gunfire and fireworks. |
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Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:10 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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Flint Neighborhood United organizers were unable to answer this question at the December meeting. A year has passed and Flint appears to be no closer and yet every night there are multiple shots fired calls to 911. Many just ignore the shots because they are so frequent-just another part of living in Flint.
Complaints are pouring in that this code red just plain doesn't work. They say they never get calls except amongst each other when situations arise. |
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Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:07 am |
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brianstarr
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| given this citys bad history of not spending the money on what its supposed to be for im guessing the shotspotter funding was probably spent on the downtown area or it went to line peoples pockets at city hall |
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Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:29 pm |
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