According to the New Jersey Newsroom, the East Orange Police Department announced the arrest of an East Orange man in connection with Monday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old boy.
Through the gunshot detection system, East Orange Police were able to swarm the shooting scene within minutes. Sanders was spotted only blocks away fleeing from the area. [...]
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East Orange, NJ: gunshot detection secures an arrest
July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
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Gun shot detectors: Pushing murder into the next town?
May 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure, Public Surveillance Failure
This is a story of three neighboring communities with higher than average crime rates: East Orange, Newark, and Irvington. All three communities are located in New Jersey.
It started in 2007 when East Orange declared that their embrace of CCTV and gunshot detectors lowered crime rates and murders from 2003 to 2006. During that very [...]
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