When Joe Ferguson, then the city’s inspector general, wrote a 2021 report on the Chicago Police Department’s use of ShotSpotter, he rightly made the point that more data was needed.

Chicago cuts ties with ShotSpotter, seeks new gunfire detection system 03:16. Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood said as of Monday afternoon, the city had already begun the process ...

Chicago City Council votes for ordinance seeking to keep ShotSpotter technology 02:13. At a news conference after the City Council meeting Wednesday, Mayor Johnson said he was committed to other ...

ShotSpotter equipment overlooks the intersection of South Stony Island Avenue and East 63rd Street in Chicago on Aug. 10, 2021. The city will not renew its contract for the gunfire detection ...

Chicago will not renew its contract to use the controversial gunshot detection system ShotSpotter and plans to decommission the technology this year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office released a statement Tuesday morning, saying its multi-million-dollar contract with SoundThinking, which owns the ShotSpotter technology, will be extended ...

In that time, ShotSpotter sensors in Chicago made more than 85,000 alerts of possible gunfire on the city’s South and West sides, the study found.

Like many large cities in the U.S., Detroit's gun violence rate has fluctuated since the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The city's murder rate increased ...

A 2021 report by the Chicago Inspector General found only 9% of gunshot alerts were ever linked to gun-related crimes. Nathan Palmer is part of the Stop ShotSpotter Campaign, which, for years has ...

The controversial technology has invited criticism and praise since it was installed since 2012. Chicago Ald. Chris Taliaferro says the decision to remove ShotSpotter “is a great loss to the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to cancel the ShotSpotter contract but extend it until Sept. 22 says a lot about his political leadership — or lack of it.. If Johnson was so determined to ...

I studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know Story by Eric L. Piza ...