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ShotSpotter Announces Major Upgrade of Patrol Management Software to Prevent Crime
ShotSpotter Connect adds new analytical tools to help law enforcement better understand impact of directed patrols on crime FREMONT, Calif., May 03, 2022
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[{"type":"text","content":"ShotSpotter Connect adds new analytical tools to help law enforcement better understand impact of directed patrols on crime\nFREMONT, Calif., May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ShotSpotter, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSTI), a leader in precision policing solutions that enable law enforcement to more effectively respond to, investigate and deter crime, today announced the availability of a major upgrade for its patrol management software solution, ShotSpotter Connect™. The upgrade features powerful reporting enhancements, new data visualizations and a more modern interface to provide supervisors and crime analysts key insights into patrol operations so they can better measure and evaluate patrol strategies and the tactics used by officers to deter crime. ShotSpotter Connect offers law enforcement agencies a more efficient, effective and equitable way to prevent crime and improve community engagement. With Connect, agencies can proactively allocate patrol resources to areas of highest risk for crime for a specific shift and connect key non-enforcement activities that correlate with crime prevention and reduction. With this upgrade, in-office users, such as analysts, command staff and supervisors can now compare crime trends and patrol dosage, generate improved shift and officer reports with summary metrics, and create dosing heatmaps to better analyze and improve the strategies they have in place for crime prevention in a transparent and non-biased fashion. “With the rise in crime and challenges to fully staff many police agencies, today’s law enforcement leaders require precision-policing tools to maximize their resource efficiency and produce results,” said Ralph A. Clark, President and CEO of ShotSpotter. “With its enhanced tools for understanding the impact of patrolling on crime, the newly redesigned ShotSpotter Connect is a best-in-class tool for agencies to prevent crime while strengthening community engagement without over policing.” Some of the new and improved features now available in Connect include: New Crime & Dosage report to compare crime trends with patrol dosageAbility to add custom agency-specific data layers from other sources to the mapThe addition of heatmaps to quickly view aggregated patrol dosage showing where patrols have occurred over a previous time periodNewly designed, more modern interface ShotSpotter Connect was p...