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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire
More cities are cutting ties with ShotSpotter, the company whose microphones purport to detect gunshots. But new information shows that ShotSpotter is still sending data to local police in at least three cities, despite their contracts being canceled.
Internal emails reviewed by South Side Weekly and WIRED suggest that 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 victims’ 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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