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 ...

said it would begin the process of removing some 2,000 sensors from across Chicago beginning on Monday. “We are gratified by the support of the many alderpeople and civic leaders across the city who ...

This week, the city council voted to overturn Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan to eliminate the controversial system, but Johnson ...

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 ...

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 ...

ShotSpotter uses audio sensors to find the location of potential outdoor gunshots. Mayor Brandon Johnson has said ShotSpotter ...

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 ...

The company will be responsible for the cost of taking down the over 2,000 acoustic sensors that underlie the technology, he added. If ShotSpotter does in fact stop functioning over the weekend ...

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 – 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 ...