ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology Has Become A Crucial Police Tool In Chicago, But Is It Worth The $33 Million The City Is Paying?
At $6.99 a slice 33 $Million buys a lot of the ubiquitous Chicago-style pizza
CBS2-CHICAGO–CBS 2 has dug into Chicago’s contract with ShotSpotter – a high-tech gunshot detection system that can alert police of potential gunfire in seconds.
With accusations that it doesn’t work, and that it targets certain communities, attorneys with the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University on Monday filed paperwork asking a Cook County judge to examine how trustworthy the system is for court cases.
The Chicago Police Department is the company’s largest client, and the city’s $33 million contract is due for renewal this summer. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey is asking, is it worth the price?
Video of the mass shooting tonight at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old girl, by gunmen who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles…
Not so ‘effing well…unless murdering more people than last year is now considered an improvement, like scoring more baskets, or runs, or goals, or more poundage of drugs.
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NBC5 Chicago— Chicago Protests: Pepper Spray Used, Clashes Reported as Group Marches to Loop. Hundreds of demonstrators took to city streets, some clashing with police in tense standoffs as the group marched through downtown Chicago calling for the defunding of police.
The demonstrations began at Chicago’s iconic Bean before the group traveled to Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive, where multiple incidents were reported.
If ‘Black Lives’ really mattered to Black people, why do they continue to MURDER each other wontonly and indiscriminately in the Democratically run City of Chicago?
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Chicago suffers deadliest day in 60 years with 18 murders in 24 hours
DISRN–The city of Chicago notched a grim milestone last weekend, as 18 people were murdered on Sunday, May 31 alone, marking the deadliest day in the city since at least 1961.
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The University of Chicago Crime Lab’s numbers do not go back further than 1961, so it’s impossible to say how long it’s been — if ever — since so many people were murdered in the city one 24-hour stretch.
Some of the innocent victims murdered by the failed liberal Democratic system in Chicago
And the Democrats want to defund the Police…. Right.
The City of Chicago is NOW HIRING School Bus Tail Gunners. Experience Preferred. Immediate Openings In The Austin, Garfield Park, Englewood, Humboldt Park, and North Lawndale ‘Hoods.
After a week of heated protests and calls for her resignation, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and African-American leaders condemned Chicago’s police union and defended how the prosecutor’s office addressed an actor’s alleged hate crime hoax.
Foxx vowed to remain at her post during a Saturday news conference, despite intense controversy sparked in March when her office dropped a 16-count indictment that accused television actor Jussie Smollett of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself to advance his career.
