CHICAGO — Hours before Chicago’s use of the ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system was decommissioned , the mayor’s office announced a formal request for companies to submit information on replacement technology.
The city’s ShotSpotter technology no longer sounding the alarm on incidents of gunfire fulfills a longstanding campaign promise of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who recently condemned the technology, calling it a ‘walkie-talkie on a pole.’
“It’s not about what that one piece of technology was, the most important thing about it is, this RFI opens up our opportunities to see what’s out there so we can push our work forward,” Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood told WGN on Monday afternoon…