{"id":434359,"date":"2025-12-09T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434359\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:00:24","slug":"dallas-eyes-new-gunfire-detection-technology-that-also-launches-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434359\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas eyes new gunfire detection technology that also launches drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9pbz9prg1wob33tv.jpg\" alt=\"DPD eyes gunfire sensors with drone technology\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; The Dallas Police Department wants to explore new technology that could detect gunfire and dispatch drones in search of active shooters.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dallas currently has 24 gunfire detection sensors across the city covering one square mile.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The city is in the middle of a three-year, $336,000 contract for that system, which was purchased in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">But police leaders on Monday told city council members that the technology stops short of what the Dallas Police Department really needs.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Instead, DPD wants to find a new system that integrates its gunfire detection with a system that can also launch drones and activate cameras in hopes of quickly catching shooters.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">DPD said with that new technology, drones could respond to a scene in as little as 30 seconds to two minutes after shots are fired.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/v-lori-dallas-public-safety-committee-4p_00.00.20.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The other side:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dallas City Council member and Public Safety Committee Chair Cara Mendelsohn pointed out that the response time for random gunfire can be hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;The problem is not that we don&#8217;t know there is gunfire. The problem is we don&#8217;t have an officer to send, and don&#8217;t know where the gunfire came from,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This technology solves one problem. Where did it come from? But do you have an officer to send? Is the drone the answer, or do you have units afterward?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dallas Police Major Yancy Nelson said if the drone finds a shooting is still active, or there is a suspect in the area, the priority level would be upgraded, and an officer would be dispatched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from Monday&#8217;s Dallas Public Safety Committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; The Dallas Police Department wants to explore new technology that could detect gunfire and dispatch drones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,14842,50,12632,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-434359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115686672191105880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}