NYPD’s Shotspotter Lays Out City’s Surging Shooting Problem
A massive surge in activations of the NYPD’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system shows that the level of gunplay in New York is even more serious than previously thought, according to department data and police sources.
Through July 21, the high-tech system had been set off 4,892 times citywide, according to NYPD figures — a 80.8-percent increase from the 2,705 activations through the same date last year.
When zeroing in on the warm-weather months, the difference becomes even more stark.
ShotSpotter was triggered 2,170 times between June 1 and July 21, a sky-high 141.1-percent hike from the 900 tallied in the period in 2019.
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