"[Office of Inspector General] Finds That ShotSpotter Alerts Rarely Lead to Evidence of a Gun-Related Crime and That Presence of the Technology Changes Police B

"[Office of Inspector General] Finds That ShotSpotter Alerts Rarely Lead to Evidence of a Gun-Related Crime and That Presence of the Technology Changes Police Behavior" - https://igchicago.org/2021/08/24/oig-finds-that-shotspotter-alerts-rarely-lead-to-evidence-of-a-gun-related-crime-and-that-presence-of-the-technology-changes-police-behavior/ https://igchicago.org/2021/08/24/oig-finds-that-shotspotter-... "Police watchdogs in Chicago have issued a report about the city’s use of ShotSpotter’s acoustic gunshot detection system, finding that only 9 percent of ShotSpotter alerts led to evidence of gun crime." - https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db8vk/police-are-using-gunshot-detection-tech-to-justify-stop-and-frisks https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db8vk/police-are-using-guns... "Court documents recently reviewed by VICE have revealed that ShotSpotter, a company that makes and sells audio gunshot detection to cities and police departments, may not be as accurate or reliable as the company claims. In fact, the documents reveal that employees at ShotSpotter may be altering alerts generated by the technology in order to justify arrests and buttress prosecutors’ cases." "And according to the testimony of a ShotSpotter employee and expert witness in court documents reviewed by VICE, claims about the accuracy of the classification come from the marketing department of the company—not from engineers." - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-using-shotspotter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-u...