Washington DC's ShotSpotter organisation is a network of over 300 acoustic sensors that are used to discovery the audio of gunfire inwards the metropolis in addition to triangulate the place of each shooting. The Urban Institute has used the information from the ShotSpotter organisation to map gunfire incidents which took house close Washington DC schools during the 2011–12 schoolhouse year.
Mapping Gunshots Near DC Schools plots schools inwards Washington DC in addition to incidents of gunfire on the same map. The schoolhouse map markers are color-coded to present schools that were inside 500 feet of a gunshot, 1,000 feet in addition to those that were farther than 1,000 feet from a shooting incident. The map also allows you lot to plow off gunshot incidents which took house exterior the fourth dimension of normal schoolhouse hours.
The Washington Post has also used the ShotSpotter information to practice a heatmap of shooting incidents inwards Washington DC. The paper has taken the information from the final 8 years in addition to mapped 39,000 outdoor gunshot incidents detected yesteryear ShotSpotter.
The DC ShotSpotter map is a rut map showing the hotspots inwards the metropolis where gunfire has been detected yesteryear the acoustic sensors. The rut map is slightly misleading because the ShotSpotter network solely covers parts of the metropolis in addition to is focused on neighborhoods amongst the virtually tearing crime. The map all the same does present the hotspots inwards the districts where ShotSpotter is inwards use.
