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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

But the Chicago Police Department is assuring people that its commitment to public safety hasn’t changed. ShotSpotter’s gunshot detection technology was decommissioned in the city at midnight ...

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 ...

ShotSpotter, Chicago's controversial gunshot detection technology, was in the process of being dismantled Monday, hours after its contract expired with the city. Mayor Brandon Johnson earlier this ...

Chicago’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology came under fire after accusations that it is racist — despite being responsible for saving myriad Chicagoans-of-color.

The City of Chicago's relationship with ShotSpotter came to an end as the clock turned from Sunday night to Monday morning. But the Chicago Police Department is assuring people that its commitment ...