Public safety data needs a strategy, Atlanta CIO says

StateScoop: The Atlanta Police Department’s recent pilot use of ShotSpotter, devices that detect gunshots and report them to law enforcement, has helped the city’s cops respond more quickly to crime scenes involving firearms, speakers said at a “smart cities” conference Thursday. But the new sensory data picked up by the devices, which were deployed around Atlanta last November, ups the pressure to create a strategy around how the data should be used.

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