I think you are under-estimating the police response time by a fairly large margin. It's not like cops have shotspotter (TM) information going to straight into their heads and can react at a moment's notice. The information goes to a command center, then if a unit is available, they might send them out for a look, which means going through the dispatcher. There really isn't some police reaction force just sitting around waiting for calls.
It's dumb technology--it's like everything the MIC has done to try and re-market to police agencies, it's unnecessary and pretty much worthless.
One of the articles I read implied that ShotSpotter could send information to the computer inside the squad car. I'm not sure if that is true or not.
I'm well aware police officers aren't specifically sitting around waiting to be dispatched, but my neighborhood has a lot of idle officers that exist as a 'show of force'. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, I just mean that this officers are already dispatched to my neighborhood as a way of reducing violence. I think that responding to areas ShotTracker has flagged would be both within their capabilities in addition to being in line with their duties and priorities.
It's dumb technology--it's like everything the MIC has done to try and re-market to police agencies, it's unnecessary and pretty much worthless.