Again - the fact that cops didn't pick up shell casings doesn't mean that shootings didn't happen. Same is true of 911 calls for gunshots. The actual tests of the technology indicate it's quite accurate. From a 2024 DOJ study: tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1…

Again - the fact that cops didn't pick up shell casings doesn't mean that shootings didn't happen. Same is true of 911 calls for gunshots. The actual tests of the technology indicate it's quite accurate. From a 2024 DOJ study: tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1…

Thoughts on the Mumford and Sons concert at Wrigley tonight?

First poll I have seen that polls all the rumored Chicago mayor candidates instead of just the biggest names. 12 candidates in this poll. Could be a long ballot.

Green Manalishi? What happens today is tied to this strengthening blob that at sunrise was growling through SW Iowa Things to note: -It is a bit farther south of the track forecast models had -It is tracking more due east than the northeast track most models had -Warm front key to a later tornado threat shoved way down to southern IL by the round 2 Wednesday storms As noted, storms like this are dependent on previous day’s outcome Current thinking still has early afternoon storms from this blob in the #Chicago area with a high wind threat. The second round threat is now clear as mud as the warm front will have a LOT of ground to cover to return all the way to northern IL to reset the atmosphere and maintain a tornado threat for the early evening round 2 with the cold front Busy day either way, heed any watches and warnings. Morning model runs should pick up on the new trends

We see your single 2019 analysis which itself states there is limited research which shows this technology is reliable in detecting shots fired as well as stating there is little academic research supporting the notion these technologies contribute to a reduction in gun crime. We raise: An August 2021 report conducted by the Office of the Inspector General concluded Chicago Police Department (CPD) responses to ShotSpotter alerts rarely produced evidence of a gun-related crime, rarely gave rise to investigatory stops, and even less frequently lead to the recovery of gun crime-related evidence. A 2021 analysis conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, which reviewed CPD deployments tied to ShotSpotter alerts from July 1, 2019 through April 14, 2021, found that 89% of deployments turned up no evidence of a gun-related criminal offense and 86% did not produce evidence of any crime. A 2021 study by J Urban Health and the New York Academy of Medicine, which modeled the impact of ShotSpotter implementation across 68 large U.S. metropolitan counties between 1999 and 2016, found “no difference in county-level homicides, murder arrests, and weapons arrests for large metropolitan counties with and without ShotSpotter technology.” Official analysis by the City of Atlanta which found ShotSpotter often duplicated and over-reported gunfire alerts while contributing little to evidence collection. Only 3% of ShotSpotter alerts led to the recovery of shell casings while the system led to just five arrests and five firearm recoveries during all of 2019. A 2020 study by the Journal of Experimental Criminology, which evaluated ShotSpotter’s ability to reduce gun violence in St. Louis, found the technology did not “deliver a consistent improvement in the response time to calls for shots fired” and did not significantly reduce violent crime levels. A 2018 NBC6 Miami investigation into ShotSpotter usage in Miami, FL which found that between Jan. 2017 and Sept. 2018 the technology led to just two arrests. A 91.3 WYSO investigation into the results of Dayton, OH’s ShotSpotter contract found that fewer than 2% of deployments resulted in an arrest and only 5% of alerts resulted in the recovery of criminal evidence. LINKS BELOW

Chicago southside.