Related story from VICE/HN thread from a few weeks ago: "Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI" https://www.vice.com/en/art

Related story from VICE/HN thread from a few weeks ago: "Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI" https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh... The AP story leads with the same wrongly arrested man, Michael Williams, but more broadly covers ShotSpotter's history and evidential failures. > AP’s investigation found the system can miss live gunfire right under its microphones, or misclassify the sounds of fireworks or cars backfiring as gunshots. Forensic reports prepared by ShotSpotter’s employees have been used in court to improperly claim that a defendant shot at police, or provide questionable counts of the number of shots allegedly fired by defendants. Judges in a number of cases have thrown out the evidence.