Gunshot detection technology has been rolled out in various cities across the country as an aid to law enforcement agencies for both tracking and reporting firearm violence. ShotSpotter, one such system deployed in parts of…
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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…
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…
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…