Tag: ShotSpotter

There’s an App for That

SplitSec, a Chicago company, says its app uses residents’ phones instead of the fixed acoustic sensors used by the controversial Shotspotter program… SplitSec ultimately wants roughly 300 to 400 participants per ward to create a sufficiently dense “mesh” of phones that can corroborate suspected gunfire. The company has floated an introductory price of $15,000 per ward per year [More]

And you thought ShotSpotter was a boondoggle. Everything to dance around and ignore the obvious.

Be funny if reporting phones get confiscated as evidence..

Forget it, Jake, it’s Chi-Town.

[Via Steve T]

Fools and Your Money

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.

[Via Edmund M]

All the Wrong Reasons

Cambridge City Council votes to end use of ShotSpotter technology [More]

Even if it wasn’t a documented boondoggle and if it did prevent violence they’d be against it because it “leads to the over-policing of communities of color” and  “ShotSpotter devices could be used by the federal government to perpetuate an immigration enforcement agenda that is deeply unpopular in Cambridge.”

Massholes get the “gun violence” they vote for.

[Via Michael G]

Fun Times in Cleveland Again

“We’re going to make the case on why this new gunshot detection technology, as well as license plate readers, our real time center, more cameras, all this technology, gives us more intelligence, gives us more data to keep our streets safe,” Bibb said. [More]

“Safe”…?

Of course Bibb’s a member!

And I like how the biggest objection his Menshevik rivals have is the data could be shared with ICE.

At least we’re not Detroit!

[Via JG]

Still Useless After All These Years

2 charged in connection to deadly mass shooting outside Minneapolis school… Police said ShotSpotter detected 30 rounds that had been fired. [More]

So, it stopped nothing, played no part in capturing the two suspected henchpersons, and “Bino” is still at large…

It’s always worked about as well as everything else that Chipman character has tried to sell.

[Via Dan Gifford]

A Public/Private Partnership

Gun-detection technology has been installed at more than 200 Utah schools… “The test will involve a representative from ZeroEyes, wearing a safety vest and carrying an Airsoft rifle and an Airsoft pistol,” meant to be visible to security cameras inside and outside an unspecified number of Ogden schools, the notice reads. [More]

So, all you need is a trench coat…?

And this promises to be every bit the boondoggle as ShotSpotter…?

I guess when there’s money to spend, actual effective solutions can be avoided.

On the plus side, it ought to give school resource officers plenty of options for hunkering down…

[Via Steve T]

A Public/Private Partnership

Federal prosecutors seek records from company that deployed AI weapons scanner on NYC subway… In October, the city revealed the scanners did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times. [More]

Sounds every bit the economic fascism boondogle ShotSpotter has proven to be…

[Via Steve T]

Bipolar in Florida

TPD renews gunshot detection system as NYC audit casts doubt on ShotSpotter accuracy [More]

Despite the fact that “in more than 80 percent of its activations, no one called 911.”

What else would we expect from a Bloomberg city, which makes this all the more difficult to explain…

[Via Edmund M]

We’re the Only Ones Unhurried Enough

Residents criticize SLMPD for 13-minute response to shooting [More]

Why did it even need to be called in, with ShotSpotter on the job…?

It’s also fair to ask what personal choices Precious Jones, who “started the Breaking Generational Poverty Foundation in hopes of stopping gun violence,” and her family could have made differently over the years.

[Via bondmen]