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[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

Here are the locations of ShotSpotter gunshot detectors in New York City
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[Pragmatic_Solidarity @wishinfornothin]

Leaked map of ShotSpotter towers in Little Rock. Enormously expensive and not technically accurate either, all concentrated in one area of the city. Check Wired for the article

[Privacy Watch STL @PrivacyWatchSTL]

A sampling of those saying no to shoddy slimy ShotSpotter:

Durham
Portland OR
Atlanta
Beloit WI
Charlotte
Dayton
Fall River MA
New Orleans
San Antonio
San Diego
Troy NY
Chicago
Buffalo

The St. Louis contract expires 10/31/2024.

ShotSpotter also operates in Ferguson and StL Co.

[EFF @EFF]

Seen an odd piece of police tech? See if you recognize it in our Street-Level Surveillance field guide. https://t.co/EWTzxXXfaa

[EFF @EFF]

Seen an odd piece of police tech? See if you recognize it in our Street-Level Surveillance field guide. https://t.co/EWTzxXXfaa

[Privacy Watch STL @PrivacyWatchSTL]

What does a ShotSpotter sensor look like? It is not cameras, though those often accompany. They're microphones. They might be parabolic dishes but those often are point-to-point comms. Most devices are small and flat.
ShotSpotter partnered with Israeli Airobtics to deploy drones.

[🔴 Crime Watch WNY @WNYnews]

ShotSpotter no longer coming to Buffalo following questions about effectiveness, biases https://t.co/msTyPsXlsy

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

NEW: The nine-month, $8.6 million contract extension that Mayor Johnson frantically hammered out with ShotSpotter to give CPD time to transition away from the gunshot detection technology just might be illegal, sources have told the Sun-Times.

https://t.co/X5ptVzwWyz

[Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe]

In St. Louis, over a decade of gunshot detection data amounting to 29k alerts led to only *13* arrests directly tied to a gunshot alert.

“High-volume agencies will likely experience substantial increases in their call volumes with remarkably little to show for it…���

[Malachi Barrett @PolarBarrett]

Not only is Detroit bound by contract to not release the location of ShotSpotter sensors, the company is not required to provide locations to police and "will challenge any subpoenas for this location any data."

Well, @WIRED found them anyway.
https://t.co/2mKyxa5Xri

[Citizens Overseeing Oklahoma @JusticeJane13]

The controversial surveillance that Oklahoma doesn't use.... YET. Its imperative to our privacy rights that our state NOT adopt this spy tech!

https://t.co/2HiXslWjLl

[Bill Shaner @bill_shaner]

Glad the wired story is bringing this into focus but it's been known that shotspotter coverage just so happens to be where the poor people of color are and isnt anywhere else

[menschy 🇵🇸 @menschlichkat]

NYC map of ShotSpotter microphone locations. "SoundThinking equipment has been installed at more than a thousand elementary and high schools; they are perched atop dozens of billboards, scores of hospitals, and within more than a hundred public housing complexes."

[Baltimore Crime Museum @museum_crime]

.@WIRED has published the location of ShotSpotter/@soundthinking_ sensors.

Here are the Baltimore locations.

[Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 @ryanjbell]

Here are all the Shotspotter sensors in Pasadena. Notice anything?

[bebo, chicago rat czar 🐀 @BebopOtt]

"In fact, when controlling for crime rates before GDT was implemented, population density, demographics, income, CCTV presence, and other factors, the study found fatal shootings actually increased through several phases of Chicago’s [ShotSpotter] rollout."

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

ShotSpotter microphones in NYC and a racial demographic map of NYC (2017)

[naomi @alexbobskers]

A lot has been said about Shotspotter being used to surveil Black and Latinx communities but here in Minneapolis it’s also used to surveil indigenous communities. Look at this map; there are at least two mics in Little Earth. (h/t @joeyneverjoe)

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

Pittsburgh is looking to not only renew the ShotSpotter contract but also expand it.
Let’s be real: This will only lead to more targeting of Black and brown residents