"Findings indicate GDT [gunshot detection technology] generates time savings and increases spatial precision as compared to CFS [9-1-1 calls for service]."
Shot spotter has a lot of false positives, but the basic logic of multiple units triangulating on the origin of the sound is valid. Physically that is; I'm not a fan of the company.
Right, that is the point of the above suggestion of adding fast-follow video to the equation.
* If all know is that a loud noise happened, in a general area, you don't know much.
* If you know that a loud noise happened, and you see a video of kids lighting off fireworks, you have a pretty good idea that it wasn't gunshots, and that it isn't worth sending humans.
* If you know that a loud noise happened, and you see people with guns or people lying in the street, you may have a good reason to send a human response.
The point of a shot spotter is to tell the PD where the loud noises are happening. Which the shot spotter can't do effectively.
If you wanted to know something was happening, people already phone in when gunshots are heard.