During the seven-day period of August 12 – 18, 2024:
- SoundThinking sent 662 ShotSpotter alerts to CPD, totaling 3,454 rounds fired.
- This number of alerts is down 7.8% compared to the week before.
- ShotSpotter’s average alert response time was 25 seconds from the time of first round fired, to the time of alert publication.
- SoundThinking sent 50 ShotSpotter alerts tagged as likely coming from a fully automatic weapon.
- For the third week in a row, the 20th Ward experienced the highest volume of gunfire (as measured by round count) with 45 ShotSpotter Alerts totaling 337 rounds fired.
- The 17th Ward experienced the highest volume of Full Auto weapons fire with 9 Full Auto ShotSpotter Alerts totaling 69 rounds fired.