New York - State Senator James Sanders Jr. (D-Rochdale Village) recently applauded
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for expanding
the ShotSpotter program to cover more parts of the city, including the
Rockaways, but says the gunshot alert and analysis system should have
been implemented in his district sooner.
Sanders, a visionary, saw the importance of such gunshot detecting technology more than a decade ago, particularly in areas around some NYCHA housing where high levels of crime had been reported. He set
aside money in the budget during his time as a City Council Member for
its implementation, but said it went nowhere under the old administration.
"It's a fantastic program, but think of
how many lives could have been saved and how many bad guys we could
have taken off the street, if we had done this 12 years ago," Sanders
said. "Sadly, the old police commissioner had no faith in it, but today
we have been vindicated."
The ShotSpotter system can triangulate the location of a gunshot to
within 25 meters of where it was fired, according to the Mayor's Office,
and sends an alert to the NYPD, which also includes information such as
the number of shots fired and the direction of the shooter's movement.
Source: The Office of New York State Senator James Sanders, Jr.
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