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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening After Contracts Expire

Internal emails show the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts were canceled.

Internal emails reviewed by South Side Weekly and WIRED suggest ShotSpotter keeps its sensors online and, in some instances, provides gunshot detection alerts to police departments in cities where its contracts have expired or been canceled. “Nothing has changed regarding our singular purpose to close the public safety gap by enabling law enforcement agencies globally to more efficiently and effectively respond to incidents of criminal gunfire…where gunshot wound victim’s lives are in the balance.” “A request to remove such [sensors] has been forwarded to the San Diego Police Department and the Mayor’s office,” a spokesperson for current District Four councilmember Henry L. Foster III (who was sworn in in April) wrote in an email to the Weekly and WIRED.

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