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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Chicago to drop ShotSpotter
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 02:01:50 -0000 (UTC)
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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>Thu, 2 May 2024 18:33:45 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

>>>https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/05/01/shotspotter-response-times-911-call-chicago-police-statistics-city-council-contract-mayor-johnson

>>I don't understand why the mayor wants to dump ShotSpotter. I could
>>only read the first couple of paragraphs of the story without a
>>subscription. 

>>Johnson seems to be another "progressive" activist type so I'm guessing
>>he sees something racist in technology that is going to get police to
>>scenes of shootings faster because more black people are going to get
>>arrested, upsetting his base. Of course he's unlikely to actually say
>>that and would cloak it in some other improbable argument. 

>Which to me is strange since presumably this service is also tied in
>to the local 911 service which in MOST communities is also tied in to
>the ambulance dispatcher (it certainly is in my town). Most of us
>would consider getting ambulances to where they need to go a plus, no?
>PARTICULARLY if it involves a shooting.

It's tied directly to a display in each police district used by police
dispatchers, a system entirely built around ShotSpotter. I'm not sure
how the 911 calls get reconciled with the same shooting heard by
ShotSpotter.

>To me this is as personal as it gets since as on 30 Jan 2005 my mother
>was run over by a runaway RV and while the ambulance came, she died
>literally on the doorsteps of the hospital - leaving my family always
>wondering if a faster response might have saved her.

I'm sorry.