ShotSpotter Follies Continue
If nothing else, this is entertaining politics:
The Chicago City Council made a significant break with Mayor Brandon Johnson, voting to give the deciding vote over ShotSpotter technology to the city’s police superintendent. The ordinance passed 33-14 in City Council chambers on Wednesday, with Johnson immediately vowing to veto the measure.
The measure passed during a special session of the City Council, and was aimed at taking the decision on whether to retain the controversial technology in place out of the mayor’s hands.
“The experts seem to think it’s a useful tool,” Ald. Bill Conway said. “Our constituents want that. Clearly a lot of my colleagues want to make sure we can keep it and find a way to do that.”
According to the measure, Supt. Larry Snelling would ultimately have the final say over whether to keep the technology in place, with a contract set to expire this month with SoundThinking, the company who maintains the network.
Conehead's allies are spouting provable lies in their effort to kill this thing:
- While the company claims a 97% accuracy rate across all customers, but Chicago officials have argued that the technology’s alerts “rarely produce evidence of a gun-related crime, rarely give rise to investigatory stops, and even less frequently lead to the recovery of gun crime-related evidence,” according to a report from the Chicago Office of Inspector General.
The joke among the CPD, especially Districts with high incidents of gunfire, is that ShotSpotter is the "most expensive shell-casing finder in existence." We've personally been on the scene of dozens of shootings where the camera room (assisted by ShotSpotter maps) literally walked officers over to shell casings in alleys, on street corners, in vacant lots covered in tall grass, even snow banks.
If you want to argue that the tens of millions of dollars spent to save the lives of around 100 people a year would be better spent elsewhere, you aren't going to get much of an argument from us - those 100 people are usually useless gangbangers, dope dealers and assorted fiends that wouldn't be missed. But making up stories doesn't do your credibility nay favors.
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Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:09 AM
13 Comments:
Fuck it . . take the money and put it towards the pension fund.
One thing is for sure.
The 14 alder-things that voted against it SHOULD NOT have it in their wards.
If only Snelling had the balls to tell that to the city council half-wits.
Just get rid of it already for if no other reason, just so we don't have to hear some three year wonder that can't speak English constantly on the radio! Bottom line, if the residents don't care enough to call it in then why should I care enough to go try to find it!
Everyone knows that Brandon and Snelling hate each other! Toni Precik is calling all the shots!!
The Superintendent will do as the Mayor wishes. It’s all smoke and mirrors. More grandstanding. It this wasn’t important and serious stuff, it would be a joke! Unreal. I wouldn’t count on any bosses on this job to do the right thing. Just sad!
Put the Shotspotter money toward our pensions and reduce the number of demorat voters. Win Win.
Here’s a merch idea!!! Especially for cook county…..
Anybody but a democrat lawn sign.
Unfortunately Bonehead will just give the saved money to alleged interrupters, reveruns,
. I guess the people that owned the company either did not pay off the right politician, or did not pay enough. The corruption filled alderman they could not find the right people to pay off. I’d how that works now we will have more bodies, so hopefully Brandon will use some of that money to buy more body bags. I thought he was all about protecting Black people apparently not as we can clearly see he does not care about them even though he claims he has a black wife and black children who he blames absolutely everything on because he’s a failure of the highest order. Here is protected by well over 200 police officers tens of millions of dollars being paid out every year unlimited overtime plus don’t many many of them get the bump on their pension, also security specialist, commander, or whatever title it is, they get their attention just for being a good little boy or girl, and doing what they are told as a valet
"Spotshotter doesn't work". Giving millions to street pastors work?
I know this is not the post for this but can someone please post the radio transmission of BT 5810 treating an officer in a very unprofessional manner over the radio please?
Chicago's Mayor (owned by Stacey Davis Gates/CTU) is working hard to exceed the corruption level of Dolton's Mayor. Federal Investigations are going to ramp up.
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No, those funds are for the migrants.
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