Small Wash. town to track gunshots to nail gangs

A rural Pacific Northwest farm town has decided to employ a gunshot tracking program in its battle against gangs.

The ShotSpotter program traces gunshots to the spot where they were fired, or close to it. It's been a popular tool in the fight against gun violence from Washington D.C. to Rio de Janeiro.

Police Chief Richard Ackerman of Quincy, Wash. believes it will also help his small city. Quincy sits about 100 miles east of Seattle in the state's farm belt. The city had three murders attributed to gang violence within nine months.

Ackerman says he believes at least one of those murders might possibly have been prevented if the technology had been in use at the time.

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