Shotspotter can return to Bull City.
Members of Durham City Council will discuss the recovering the technology to detect bullets on Thursday. He has a three -year shotspotter contract on the table, which will cost more than $ 650,000 and more than the same area of the pilot program.
Durham police data shows for years that 602 AD. In the main cent, about 3% of the land mass of the city around the Durham police headquarters contains about one-third of the shooting incidents, which are at a distance of three square miles, where the shotspotters were deployed, and where the police are asking to turn it back.
According to the item of the agenda before the Durham City Council, police say they want the shotSpotter back based on the results of the year -long pilot Prague in December.
The average response to the police to confirm shooting in the data shotspotter area was 271 seconds. It is 88 seconds faster than before the response time in the year.
Police said that there was very little change in response to the rest of the city (in fact, four-seconds had increased).
Thomas Chitum, vice -president of Shotspotar Forensic Services, said that if the city council proceeds with technology, it is as easy to flip a switch, which is already with the sensor.
Chitum said, “The experience that Durham experienced with Shotspotters in his first year reflects the value of the system, and we are eager to work there.” “If the vote indicates that they want to resume the shotspotter service, we can return to action very early.”
Shotspotter critics said that it increases police activity in colored communities and also brings concerns of privacy.
Chitum argues that it is an effective tool.
“We often help the police to detect gun pellet wound victims, who specially require help, especially when no one else says 911,” he said.
The Durham police also said that during the pilot program, there was no complaint about the officer conduct while responding to the shotspotter alert.
Shot spotter is already being used in at least six other cities in northern Carolina, including Fietville, Goldsborough, Greenville, Rocky Mount, Wilmington and Winston-Salem.
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A three -year contract will cost a total of $ 650,000. Thursday’s work session starts at 1 pm