(TNS) — The Tacoma Police Department’s three-year test run of ShotSpotter gunshot-detection technology installed in a neighborhood that has struggled with violence has ended prematurely without ever activating one of the devices that police leaders said would save lives.
Trying out ShotSpotter was part of an $800,000 grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance the Police Department announced in April last year that included a 3-D scanner for crime scenes and a device designed to lift fingerprints from discharged bullet casings.
About $300,000 of that grant money is left over a two-year period, according to the Police Department, which is working with the Bureau of Justice Assistance to reallocate the funds to pre-existing tech programs within the department…