'Chicago has quietly expanded the surveillance technology ShotSpotter's footprint—but it’s still disproportionately listening to Black and Brown communities.' | delvecchiograce & foiachap
Before last March, you might not have heard of ShotSpotter. That month, news of 13-year-old Adam Toledo’s killing by a police officer in Little Village rang through Chicago just as resoundingly as the alleged noise of gunshots that brought cops to his location in the first place.
ShotSpotter’s primary purpose is to hear gunshots, but according to a report published by the city’s Office of the Inspector General last August, only 9.1 percent of alerts generated between January 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021, actually resulted in police finding evidence of a gun crime.
In this map, orange dots represent ShotSpotter devices in the 12 districts the city has acknowledged as having them via its violence reduction dashboard; blue dots represent apparent ShotSpotter devices in the districts the city has not publicly acknowledged as having them. Click on any dot to see the device it represents on Google Street View.
According to the OIG’s report, there is also a pattern of police stopping people who happen to be in the vicinity of ShotSpotter and using the device’s proximity to rationalize the stops and subsequent pat-downs.about ShotSpotter, a CPD spokesperson provided a statement that said in part, “[t]he detection technology is among a host of tools used by the Chicago Police Department to keep the public safe and ultimately save lives.
In one example, an initial version of the data that was published in August 2021 showed 90 ShotSpotter alerts citywide for April 21, 2021. However, a version of the data from the same date that we reviewed earlier this month showed only 74 ShotSpotter alerts. That’s a discrepancy of 18 percent.about the discrepancy, the Office of Public Safety Administration said they are reviewing the database for a “technical issue” and will “resolve it as soon as possible.
He regularly reports his findings on ShotSpotter’s inaccuracy and ineffectiveness on Twitter, and about a year ago, a Twitter user under the username of @slayercapital, an account that has since been deleted, started responding, calling his claims against ShotSpotter “disgusting and despicable.”
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