Evolv Stopped Guns Claims Examined
While Evolv emphasizes the number of guns stopped from entering locations using Evolv Express, this self-selected success metric is not easy to explain, even for Evolv's leadership team.
In this report, IPVM examines the basis of the claims, how Evolv collects data to support its guns stopped metric, and the limitations of these claims based on responses from Evolv.
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