Posted on 02/14/2024 2:21:05 PM PST by grundle
Community groups say ShotSpotter system sends police to Black and Latino neighborhoods for unnecessary and hostile encounters
Chicago will not renew its ShotSpotter contract and plans to stop using the controversial gunshot detection system later this year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced on Tuesday.
The system, which relies on an artificial intelligence algorithm and network of microphones to identify gunshots, has been criticized for inaccuracy, racial bias and law enforcement misuse. An Associated Press investigation of the technology detailed how police and prosecutors used ShotSpotter data as evidence in charging a Chicago grandfather with murder before a judge dismissed the case due to insufficient evidence.
Chicago’s contract with SoundThinking, a public safety technology company that says its ShotSpotter tool is used in roughly 150 cities, expires on Friday. The city plans to wind down use of ShotSpotter technology by late September, according to city officials. Since 2018, the city has spent $49m on ShotSpotter.
Johnson, a first-term mayor, campaigned on a promise to end the use of ShotSpotter, putting him at odds with police leaders who have praised the system.
They argue that crime rates – not residents’ race – determine where the technology is deployed.
“Technology is where policing is going as a whole. If we’re not utilizing technology, then we fall behind in crime fighting,” Superintendent Larry Snelling of Chicago police told the AP in an October interview. “There are always going to be issues. Nothing is 100% and nothing’s going to be perfect.”
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Chicago leaders are the anti-white racists.
Not. The. Bee.
Black gunshots are protected!!
If they want to off themselves, have at it. Why send blues into a neighborhood they are not wanted in?
Related, from Second City Cop...
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2024/02/shotspotter-to-end.html?m=1
They’ve been trying to deploy the Shot Spotter system for (I think) a few decades now.
Code word for “it didn’t work , someone’s brother in law needs more money that came up with another scam”
I thought this was the Babbling Bee.
Hizzoner da Mayor seems to have gotten something right, for the wrong reasons.
It just happens that it generally coincides with back neighborhoods.
Chicago is dying.
Good.
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They don’t want the shot spotter for the same reason that defense attorneys are now trying to suppress bodycam footage: it makes their groups out to be criminals. Which, of course they are.
CC
because sound waves are systemically racist!!!!
If a gun is shot and the mayor doesn’t hear it, was the gun really shot?
You ever notice the break-ins on security device commercials are always white?????
“Chicago will not renew its ShotSpotter contract and plans to stop using the controversial gunshot detection system later this year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced on Tuesday.”
Does this mean he’s going to wait until after the Democratic party convention to end it?
Huh? Only detects bipoc shooters?
Blacks commit more crime. Blacks need to fix their cultural problems, and not expect to not get arrested / charged / convicted / imprisoned more than whites.
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