East Palo Alto has shotspotter installed throughout. In summer of 2020 there were several weeks of nightly nearly non stop fireworks. Shotspotter should have be

East Palo Alto has shotspotter installed throughout. In summer of 2020 there were several weeks of nightly nearly non stop fireworks. Shotspotter should have been able to help the police pinpoint the locations of these illegal fireworks yet no enforcement actually happened. Now part of that might be because of the defacto police strike in response to "defund the police", but the noise went on long enough and was heard in nearby wealthy cities enough that actually motivated police forces were pushing to fix the problem and yet shotspotter proved useless. This leads to the allegation that shotspotter doesn't actually work at all and is just there so when a hothead young cop does something wrong without thinking the police department can, after the fact, get shotspotter to gin up some probable cause.