Washington DC's ShotSpotter organisation is a network of over 300 acoustic sensors that are used to uncovering the audio of gunfire inwards the urban heart in addition to individual in addition to triangulate the place of each shooting. The Washington Post has taken the information from the final 8 years in addition to mapped 39,000 outdoor gunshot incidents detected past times ShotSpotter.
The DC ShotSpotter map is a oestrus map showing the hotspots inwards the urban heart in addition to individual where gunfire has been detected past times the acoustic sensors. The oestrus map is slightly misleading every mo the ShotSpotter network exclusively covers parts of the urban heart in addition to individual in addition to is focused on neighborhoods amongst the close tearing crime. The map withal does exhibit the hotspots inwards the districts where ShotSpotter is inwards use.
