SHOTSPOTTER Gunshot Detection Maps for Melrose

ShotSpotter Maps

Here’s our first Melrose GPS-enabled, ShotSpotter Map, using Google Maps and OPD-provided ShotSpotter so you can see where shots are being fired, in context of where you are located if you choose that option, so you can understand the number of bullets being shot in Melrose each day to better navigate and help OPD reduce gun violence on our blocks.

The reports we’ll feature here are limited to OPD Beat 27x which is the majority of what we call “Melrose”.

Because violence is spiking throughout the country, and Central East Oakland, OPD has been brain storming with Melrose residents to help reduce gun violence using new approaches and technology.

OPD offered ShotSpotter data so folks can use it to gain a clearer understanding of the scale, location, and frequency of where and when shots are being fired in hopes the community can help OPD reduce gun violence by reporting what’s seen.

Melrose took this data and put it in Google Maps so residents can literally see where shots are coming from to keep an eye out for their safety while navigating the neighborhood.

The goal is to share more sightings with OPD and review monthly reports to see if the monthly number of gunshots, casualties, and homicides go down and keep aiming to do more to co-create a safer Melrose for all of us.

Melrose GPS-enabled, ShotSpotter Map, using Google Maps and OPD ShotSpotter data to keep you safer and help report gunshots.

How to read these interactive GPS maps & incident reports

Report 01: July 9 - Aug 6, 2020
99 gunshots in 28 days and a quadruple shooting w/ 1 homicide