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Portland’s Mayor Wants to Buy the Questionable ShotSpotter System to Fix the City’s Endemic Violent Crime Problem

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has decided to move forward with a controversial technology that claims to detect and pinpoint gunshots throughout the city. The Focused Intervention Team’s Community Oversight Group, or FITCOG, recommended the city…

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Chicago Inspector General: ShotSpotter System Doesn’t Help Solve Gun-Related Crimes

By Don Babwin and Garance Burke, AP A gunshot detection system that has cost Chicago tens of millions of dollars and is touted as a critical component of the police department’s effort to combat gun…

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Electronic Frontier Foundation: ShotSpotter is Too Susceptible to Fraud, Abuse, and Eavesdropping

In addition to [ShotSpotter’s] history of false positives, the danger it poses to pedestrians and residents, and the company’s dubious record of altering data at the behest of police departments, there is also a civil…