BPD stands by ShotSpotter system

If people in are saying they get grilled for false positives some of the time. If there are a lot of false positives and 95% are cleared quickly that still means there is police grilling 5% of the time. 5% is speculative as no numbers are provided by post.

because it gives more police interactions for a community that already feels over-policed. If shots are being fired and no one bothers to call it in, the problem is much deeper than anything solved by a shotspotter.

Better angle would to promote what good this tech has done, but if it's majority false positives then I can only assume the reasons for keeping it are dubious at best.

Piza presented a report with data to support his findings, including things like

Gun violence did not decrease. Shootings were not any more likely to be solved after the introduction of ShotSpotter.” He said there was also no evidence that ShotSpotter reduced gunshot fatalities through faster emergency response, as SoundThinking claims.

Do you have a similar report backing up your claims?

Only care about coddling criminals to the detriment of families

I don't usually give anons a like... But, Yeah.

Restaurants and food in Chicago are far superior to those in Boston because rent and barriers to entry are lower, thus competition and quality are higher. They build housing in Chicago, as a result real estate prices are flat/down in the last decade while they’ve doubled in Boston. Transit coverage is far better (the L line doesn’t just stop halfway through the city) and the transit system is far more reliable. Chicago has many wonderful qualities along with its share of problems.

The murder rate in Chicago is unacceptably high, but not as high as other cities. #10 per-capita behind St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Memphis, Newark.

I can't believe nobody's ever thought of that before. Why are you wasting your time commenting on Uhub threads when your genius level of insight could be helping people across the globe?

In case anyone doesn't want to click through:

The document is what’s known as a Frye motion—a request for a judge to examine and rule on whether a particular forensic method is scientifically valid enough to be entered as evidence. Rather than defend ShotSpotter’s technology and its employees' actions in a Frye hearing, the prosecutors withdrew all ShotSpotter evidence against Williams.

The case isn’t an anomaly, and the pattern it represents could have huge ramifications for ShotSpotter in Chicago, where the technology generates an average of 21,000 alerts each year. The technology is also currently in use in more than 100 cities.

Motherboard’s review of court documents from the Williams case and other trials in Chicago and New York State, including testimony from ShotSpotter’s favored expert witness, suggests that the company’s analysts frequently modify alerts at the request of police departments—some of which appear to be grasping for evidence that supports their narrative of events.

When Shotspotter was first introduced, BPD dispatchers would listen to sounds from the sensors and determine whether to dispatch or not. Many were familiar with the neighborhoods and buildings so could consider some context to the activations. Such as the frequent bus backfires. They could also push the audio to officers. At some point, I'm sure for money, Shotspotter went to a remote system, where Shotspotter employees listened and then coded as shots, or fireworks or other. This took away from the dispatchers and officers making the initial determination.
In terms of usefullness, the system routinely puts officers on-scene of incidents well before 911 calls come in and is able to pinpoint locations where witnesses can often just give a general area.