Another Missed ShotSpotter

CWB still keeping track of the places where ShotSpotter used to give us a heads-up on shots fired calls:

• Around 8:47 p.m. Tuesday, somebody called 911 for a person down in the 4000 block of West Wilcox. “Person down, but not quite,” a Chicago police dispatcher said dismissively as she read the assignment. “He’s just laying there and yelling. But he’s under the influence. Fire’s en route.”

  As it turned out, the man had actually been shot in the back. The bullet exited through his abdomen. Nobody had called to report gunshots in the area.

  It’s unclear how long the man was lying there before someone called 911, however CPD says the shooting occurred at 8:42 p.m., about five minutes before the “person down” call was dispatched to police.

  Had Mayor Brandon Johnson not disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter service on September 23, the dispatcher likely would have known about the shots fired and had units on the way before any 911 calls came in. And she’d be able to quickly make the connection between a man on the ground yelling and the gunfire, expediting the police and fire response.

And the dispatcher treating it like just a drunk yelling on the sidewalk is poetic in its own way.

Conehead and that stripper patronizing alderreature (married to the corrupt City Treasurer) will likely never pay a price at the ballot box, but it's still amusing to see the casualties stack up under their watches.