By Tom Tolan
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. - A high-tech, federally funded system of sensors and software now allows Milwaukee police to pinpoint exactly where in one violent area of the city shots have been fired - and to get officers there in a hurry.
“It’s an area of Milwaukee that desperately needs crime control and violence prevention,” Police Chief Edward Flynn said at a news conference Tuesday unveiling the city’s new ShotSpotter system.
The system, supplied by a Mountain View, Calif., company by the same name, detects the shock waves from a bullet being fired and can sort that information out from all the other noise in the area, Flynn and a company official said.