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Police Are Using Gunshot Detection Tech To Justify Stop-and-Frisks
In Chicago, a government watchdog says Shotspotter alerts have only led to evidence of gun crime in 9 percent of cases.
More Cities Are Moving to Drop Automated Gunshot-Detection Tech
Experts say ShotSpotter is unreliable and disproportionately calls armed police into Black and brown neighborhoods.
Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
Gunshot-Detecting Tech Is Summoning Armed Police to Black Neighborhoods
A Motherboard investigation found that ShotSpotter frequently generates false alerts—and it's deployed almost exclusively in non-white neighborhoods.
Toronto Wants More Gun Control. Will It Work?
After the Danforth mass shooting, Toronto politicians have made moves to curb gun violence. But experts believe many of their proposals will be ineffective.
Toronto Approves Gunshot-Detecting Surveillance Tech Days After Mass Shooting
Rattled by a string of gun violence this year, Toronto just approved ShotSpotter, a US-based audio surveillance system that purports to detect the sound of gunshots.
The Plan to Surveil the Sounds of Cities
Surveillance cameras are a near-ubiquitous feature in our cities, and those eyes will soon be matched with ears.