Minneapolis council approves limited expansion of gunshot detection system
In a 13-0 vote, the City Council signed off on a two-year contract renewal with ShotSpotter that spreads acoustic sensors ...
City Council votes to keep ShotSpotter, but Mayor Johnson pledges veto
As Mayor Johnson sticks to his plan, opponents are already trying to pin him with blame for any gunshot deaths that follow, ...
Mayor Johnson rejects plan to keep ShotSpotter; company to remove gunshot sensors
A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the controversial ...
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Minneapolis will keep using ShotSpotter gunshot detection… for now
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously Thursday to expand and extend its contract to use the gunshot detection technology known as ShotSpotter through 2026, despite facing criticism from some ...
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Mayor Johnson rejects plan to keep ShotSpotter; company to remove gunshot sensors
In a post on its website, ShotSpotter’s parent company, Soundthinking, shared a separate 2024 study from Winston-Salem, North Carolina which alleged the acoustic gunshot technology alert “is ...
Chicago city council blasts Mayor Johnson canceling ShotSpotter: 'Campaign promise at the expense of lives'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continued his calls to shut down the gunshot detection system ShotSpotter on Monday ahead of an ...
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City Council votes to keep ShotSpotter, but Mayor Johnson pledges veto
ShotSpotter — which uses acoustic sensors mounted on light poles, mostly on the South and West sides, to quickly alert police about the location of suspected gunfire — has been in activists ...
Chicago Council Votes to Give ShotSpotter Contracting Power to Police Superintendent, Sidestepping Mayor
Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson dismissed the gunshot-detection technology as nothing more than ‘walkie-talkies on a stick.’ ...
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ShotSpotter’s future in Chicago in question days before tool goes offline
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 ...
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Chicago city council blasts Mayor Johnson canceling ShotSpotter: 'Campaign promise at the expense of lives'
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 ...