In recent weeks, longstanding criticisms of ShotSpotter have intensified. Among them that the system is inaccurate, expensive and disproportionately harms people of color.

ShotSpotter says its accuracy is 97%, contradicting other studies . The system’s accuracy is one of its most controversial aspects, with different studies coming to wildly varied conclusions.

In a few short hours, ShotSpotter’s gunshot detection technology will be decommissioned, with alerts to law enforcement coming to a stop, and the technology officially being dismantled, starting ...

The company behind the controversial gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter will begin removing its sensors across Chicago on Monday, hours after its contract expires with the city.

CHICAGO (CBS) — ShotSpotter is now offline in Chicago. The gunshot detection system stopped sending data to police at 12:01 a.m. Monday—all despite a monthslong fight to keep the technology in ...

Holyoke police’s first ShotSpotter report from March detected 39 shots fired in and around the radius of the downtown and south Holyoke areas where the machines were installed.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has said little about the gunshot technology known as ShotSpotter, but his new police chief wants to keep it. We think he deserves the chance to make his case. For an examinab… ...

ShotSpotter system has "little impact" on shooting arrests, report finds 03:14. CHICAGO (CBS) --A leaked internal report from Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's Office revealed an expensive ...

ShotSpotter tells police the ‘what,’ ‘when,’ and ‘where’ of gunfire, but it does not and cannot tell them ‘who.’ Law enforcement must determine that through investigation. ShotSpotter ...

ShotSpotter devices to be removed starting Monday after contract expires ShotSpotter will stop transmitting its data to Chicago police at midnight barring a last minute order or invention from ...