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Police ask to use $1 million DOJ grant to expand gunshot-detection coverage; committee advances item
Summary
The committee advanced a resolution to accept a $1 million DOJ COPS grant to expand the ShotSpotter gunshot-location system from 3.3 to 7.3 square miles. Police presented usage data (1,924 gunfire events captured in 2009 across current coverage) and said the system has about a 75% accuracy rate; members pressed on integration with CAD/ComStat and long-term maintenance costs.
The Budget and Finance Committee voted to send a resolution to the full Board of Supervisors authorizing the Police Department to retroactively accept and expend a $1,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to expand the city’s ShotSpotter gunshot-location system.
Lieutenant Mikael Ali, the department official in charge of the ShotSpotter project, said the grant would extend coverage from 3.3 square miles to 7.3 square miles and expand the number of police districts receiving real-time…
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