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crime that day. www.AmericanSecurityToday.com June 2019 - Edition 45 ShotSpotter Missions develops risk assessments for future crimes by collecting and analyzing three sources of data: • Historical crime data from a police jurisdiction • Public data such as weather, transportation points, locations of parks, schools, and liquor establishments • Exclusive ShotSpotter gunfire data Machine learning determines the areas of highest risk and the forecasts are turned into data-driven patrol plans by shift and beat every day, and disseminated electronically to officers in the field. Missions carefully meters out recommended time spent on a directed patrol, suggests tactics by crime type, and automatically randomizes patrol locations to minimize the possibility of over or under policing 17