The City Council on Wednesday voted 33-14 to give police Supt. Larry Snelling power over the city’s contract with ...
A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the controversial ...
ShotSpotter technology, used nationwide, operates through a network of audio sensors spread throughout the city. When one of the sensors detects a sound resembling a gunshot, it sends a signal to one ...
If the contract with ShotSpotter is allowed to expire by Sunday, the company behind the technology will take the sensors down.
ShotSpotter places 15 to 20 sensors per square mile that contain ... SoundThinking claims ShotSpotter is “highly accurate at detecting outdoor gunshots,” with a 97% aggregate accuracy rate ...
But the City Council has fought hard to keep the sensors — which Snelling has praised as an important aide for police — in use. Aldermen passed with a veto-proof majority in May a measure to give ...
ShotSpotter uses audio sensors to find the location of potential outdoor gunshots. Mayor Brandon Johnson has said ShotSpotter ...
It didn't do that." The ShotSpotter technology has used a network of acoustic sensors to detect the location of gunfire and relay information to the police since 2012. Though Johnson is dedicated ...
And at a City Hall news conference Wednesday morning, supporters of the sensors laid the groundwork to blame him for gunshot deaths that follow ShotSpotter’s termination. “If certain people ...
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CHICAGO — Barring a last-minute extension, the company behind the ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology says work will begin Monday on the removal of sensors around the city. The City Council ...
CHICAGO – A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the ... process of removing some 2,000 sensors from across Chicago beginning ...