The value of Ground Truth is not in any single response. It is in the consistency across all of them. Captain Nelson Bowling explains how Lancaster PD uses Ground Truth as a post-scene checklist that every officer works through after securing a ShotSpotter alert—correlating 911 calls, identifying witnesses, requesting video, and documenting evidence recovery in the same structured sequence every single time. That consistency is what makes the data meaningful. When every officer asks the same questions at every scene, witnesses are found. Video gets requested before it overwrites. Any 911 calls are connected. And the accumulated record across hundreds of responses becomes an intelligence and evidentiary asset that no single incident could produce alone. This video is part of a series on how Lancaster PD built a ShotSpotter deployment that delivers value and safety to the community. Learn more about ShotSpotter gunshot detection: https://www.soundthinking.com/law-enforcement/leading-gunshot-detection-system/

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