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Detroit Police Department · Gunshot Detection · 2025

From Alert to Arrest

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Counted outcome
No outcome
● = 10 incidents
Gunshot
Alerts
10,005
100% of alerts
— baseline
leads to ▼
Warrants
Issued
250
2.5% of alerts
1 in 40 alerts → warrant
leads to ▼
Arrests
Made
78
0.78% of alerts
1 in 128 alerts → arrest
128 alerts for every arrest. Detroit's gunshot detection system generated 10,005 alerts in 2025. Only 250 led to a warrant — and just 78 resulted in an arrest, a conversion rate of under 1%.