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Over the past decade, Pittsburgh has sunk nearly $10 million into ShotSpotter, the most widely used gunshot-detection system in America. The controversial crime-fighting technology uses sound to ...
The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system could get another chance to stick around in Chicago as aldermen try to wrest control over the technology’s future from Mayor Brandon Johnson.
As of midnight, the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system was no longer sending data to Chicago Police because the company's contract was not renewed by Mayor Brandon Johnson.
The acoustic gunshot detection system promises to alert police officers to “virtually all gunfire within a city’s ShotSpotter coverage area,” enabling a fast and precise response, improved ...
ShotSpotter, Chicago's controversial gunshot detection technology, was in the process of being dismantled Monday, hours after its contract expired with the city. Mayor Brandon Johnson earlier this ...
The New Orleans Police Department investigates the scene of a homicide at the intersection of Elysian Fields Avenue and North ...
Local News What is ShotSpotter? Controversial gunshot detection technology facing increasing scrutiny Critics doubt the system's accuracy and say sensors are concentrated in minority communities.
Chicago will not renew its contract to use the controversial gunshot detection system ShotSpotter and plans to decommission the technology this year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced ...
And the 180-degree turn back toward gunshot detection — a full 360-degree circle, if ShotSpotter comes back — could have been avoided if the mayor had simply listened to the right people.
ShotSpotter – a system intended to detect gunfire and cut police response times – has run into sharp criticism from officials and groups. 36° Make wishtv.com your home page ...
The victim, who was found by police wounded in his vehicle, told officers he had been shot by a man in another vehicle that ...
Mayor Johnson looking at a range of gunshot-detection systems — including ShotSpotter Bidding for a new contract is now underway after Johnson’s controversial decision to end Chicago’s ...