Mass. City Gives Up on Gunshot Detection System in Favor of Video
According to the Fall River, Mass., newspaper The Herald News, the city’s police department announced it would no longer be using the gunshot detection system ShotSpotter, which covered about three square miles in the Fall River.
The city acknowledged that the system, which is being employed in four other Mass. cities and has been in use in Fall river since 2012, has been successful in other communities but struggled to triangulate the sound waves in the hilly terrain of Fall River.