The Cambridge City Council voted 6-3 in a meeting Monday to temporarily restore and reactivate ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. The discussion came nearly a month after a city employee was shot and killed near a Cambridge park. [More]
It was useless at stopping it and they caught a suspect, so what’s the contention? That is police had responded soon enough the victim might have been saved?
Without knowing the extent of his wound and how soon he expired, it’s all meaningless and the response is purely one of image and emotion, and besides, that’s hardly the selling point that’s been used for cities to implement this proven boondoggle.
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