Since going live in July, the city’s new ShotSpotter program has worked as intended: The detection system has picked up on a large number of gunshots.
“We’ve made a few arrests; probably not as many as we would like,” Police Chief Paul Prine told FOX10 News., ShotSpotter devices across the city have picked up the sound of more than 600 rounds of gunfire from about 200 incidents. Yet, only three of those incidents resulted in calls from the public.
in July, and Levy added that it has led to about five arrests – including for offenses as serous as attempted murder.“Most of the time on Fridays. … Every now and then, it’ll be Saturdays,” he said. “There’s some kind of argument around here, fighting. Right up between up in here. I don’t know what they’re fighting about.”
Added Prine: “The community, for the most part, is not calling the police on those particular incidences, and those are the things that we really need to get buy-in from the community. Because there’s a trust factor there. We want the community to trust that when the officers show up from the Mobile Police Department, they’re going to get service.”
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