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Chicago Residents

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 11215 Report
Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

2012-10-09

ShotSpotter algorithmic systems locating gunshots were reported by police departments for containing high false positive rates and wasting police resources, prompting discontinuation.

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Incident 6371 Report
Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

2024-01-31

SoundThinking's (formerly ShotSpotter's) system in Chicago, with a reported 47% accuracy rate for detecting actual gunshots, led to potential public safety risks by failing to alert police to real shootings, possibly delaying emergency response to violent incidents and misdirecting law enforcement resources.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Troy Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

Syracuse Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

San Francisco Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

San Antonio Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

New York City Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

Fall River Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

Chicago Police Department

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

  • Incident 637
    1 Report

    Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

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Entity

ShotSpotter

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

  • Incident 637
    1 Report

    Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

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Entity

Troy residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

Syracuse residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

San Francisco residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

San Antonio residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

New York City residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

Fall River residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 112
    15 Reports

    Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Entity

SoundThinking

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 637
    1 Report

    Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 637
    1 Report

    Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

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Chicago Minority Communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 637
    1 Report

    Gunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System

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