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I don't think any of that is an indictment of the system. If 10% lead to arrests for gun crimes that might have otherwise been missed, then that's pretty good.

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I don't think any of that is an indictment of the system. How on earth is having a system that not onlt can be altered to fit police narratives but which actually is not an indictment of the system? Among the other issues... > If 10% lead to arrests for gun crimes that might have otherwise been missed, then that's pretty good. Yeah, its a system that’s problems are concrete, but benefits rest on a lot of optimistic “ifs”. From the first cited source: --- But a study of the St. Louis Police Department found that while ShotSpotter increased the number of calls for service for gunfire, it did not actually reduce crime or result in many arrests. Over 19,000 calls for service were activated by ShotSpotter over a decade. Out of these 19,000, only 13 arrests were "uniquely tied" to ShotSpotter — arrests that couldn't have happened without the technology. --- That's less than 0.1%, not 10%.