CHICAGO — The City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance giving leaders more control over the ShotSpotter contract that Mayor Brandon Johnson is intent on ending. In a stunning rebuke, the council voted 34-14 to limit Johnson’s ability to cancel the city agreement with the SoundThinking, the company behind the technology, and give police an […]
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Good morning, Chicago. The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system could get another chance to stick around in Chicago as aldermen try to wrest control over the technology’s future from Mayor Brandon Johnson. Aldermen on Monday advanced an order to give the City Council final say over violence prevention funding efforts removed by the mayor, such as […]
Durham’s ShotSpotter experiment is over, city leaders voted Monday night. The City Council rejected a three-year contract extension with the gunfire detection company in a 2-4 vote Monday night: Voting no: Nate Baker, Javiera Caballero, Chelsea Cook, Carl Rist Voting yes: Mayor Leonardo Williams, Mayor Pro Tem Mark-Anthony Middleton Absent: DeDreana Freeman “The data at […]
Early one morning last May, on a bungalow-lined street in Avalon Park, ShotSpotter detected real gunshots: more than half a dozen rounds fired. It was a busy night, and officers didn’t make it to the scene for more than half an hour. But when they arrived they found 24-year-old Aréanah Preston, a Loyola law student […]