CHICAGO — In a few short hours, ShotSpotter’s gunshot detection technology will be decommissioned, with alerts to law enforcement coming to a stop, and the technology officially being dismantled, starting Monday.
“We provide the most unbiased approach to responding to gun violence because we know nothing about the age, race, sex, motivation of the shooter,” said Gary Bunyard, Vice President of Corporate Development at SoundThinking, the company behind ShotSpotter. “All we know was a weapon was discharged at that particular point in time.”
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The technology has helped the United States’ second-largest police department for years, alerting officers when gunshots are detected, often in cases where a 911 call isn’t made.
But once the clock strikes midnight, the city and ShotSpotter will part ways…