the atf sees 1500 machine gun conversion devices last year. that s five times as many as the year before. griffith says police departments across the country have confiscated modified machine guns, but many don t even know it. a lot of them have never seen some of these devices, like laying here. reporter: right. and when we tell them about it, they go back into their evidence vault and they look and check and they find this stuff. reporter: more and more, this stuff is being found in the slaughter it leaves in its wake. this january, three more houston officers were fired upon, all three wounded, when a career criminal opened fire with a machine gun-style pistol. when they arrested him hands straight up! reporter: they found more machine gun parts and 3-d printers. in sacramento, a massacre on the city s downtown streets, six dead, a dozen injured, one of the guns in the shootout according to police had an auto
intended for them. reporter: since 2019, the incidence of automatic gunfire picked up by shot spotter have increased from roughly 400 to 5,600 just last year. just spend a few moments at calen parker s monitoring station and you can hear the havoc. all of these ones i m showing you here are full automatic incidents starting from three rounds going all the way up to 30 rounds. 30 rounds? 30 rounds here in baltimore, maryland. this was sometime on tuesday and wednesday? yes, sir, this was 4:00 p.m. yesterday. when you sit here and listen to this and realize what s going on on the streets, what are you thinking? you don t believe it until you hear it, and it s just sad. unfortunately with a lot of these shootings there was a victim behind these. reporter: in fact, those sounds you heard from baltimore were bullets hitting two people including a 14-year-old boy. back in texas, lacy jeffrey is
found more machine gun parts and 3-d printers. in sacramento this april a massacre on the city s downtown streets. six dead, a dozen injured, one of the guns in the shootout according to police had an auto sear or switch to make it fully automatic. awful these in the last 24 hours nine rounds, ten rounds, 18 rounds, 27 rounds. tom, that s like tuesday. yes. tuesday in america we re having this? you should come here on the weekend. reporter: this is shot spotter, it locates gunfire for police by listening to a network of microphones across american cities and more and more those microphones are picking up automatic fire. the rate of fire, the number of rounds being fired in only a few seconds is very serious. innocent bystanders are being hit by rounds that weren t intended for them. reporter: since 2019 the incidence of automatic gunfire picked up by shot spotter have
A growing work program under the auspices of the Downtown Streets Team is creating full-time transitional jobs for its formerly unhoused clients, often leading to permanent employment.
A growing work program under the auspices of the Downtown Streets Team is creating full-time transitional jobs for its formerly unhoused clients, often leading to permanent employment.