Officers are accused of putting 'blind faith' in a notoriously unreliable platform.
responding to a ShotSpotter alert — accused the software of racial discrimination.
"In less than two years, there were more than 40,000 dead-end ShotSpotter deployments," reads the MacArthur project report., police didn't even confirm a motive for Williams, who was accused of shooting 25-year-old Safarian Harring while giving the young man a ride home from a police brutality protest. All they had was a soundless security video of a car, along with a ShotSpotter alert.
Regardless, the allegations are extremely serious: that in the same year, ShotSpotter alerts put an innocent man in prison and led to the death of an unarmed child. It'll be fascinating to see the case play out.