Elected officials and the public are at odds about the effectiveness and reliability of the system that uses groups of sensors placed in communities as a public safety tool.
Considering that it is only right in a small minority of cases, I am going to say the answer is no. ShotSpotter claims a 94% accuracy but looking at 40k dispatches in Chicago over 2 years, 89% resulted in nothing gun related and 84% did not even find a crime.
On the radio this morning, they claimed an accuracy of 30%, which they made seem low, but I thought it was surprisingly high. Regardless of the actual number, fire alarm activations have presumably similar accuracy rates, but nobody blinks an eye at those.
Nobody blinks an eye at those because the response you get is not going to be multiple police aiming guns at you and possibly shooting you because they incorrectly think you are armed.
And let’s not presume. Do you have actual figures?
Considering that it is only right in a small minority of cases, I am going to say the answer is no. ShotSpotter claims a 94% accuracy but looking at 40k dispatches in Chicago over 2 years, 89% resulted in nothing gun related and 84% did not even find a crime.
https://www.macarthurjustice.org/shotspotter-generated-over-40000-dead-end-police-deployments-in-chicago-in-21-months-according-to-new-study/
ShotSpotter is pure fantasy and confuses loud noises for gun shots.
The product doesn’t need to be viable, just needs enough plausibility to be able to sell it to your desperate rube customers.
Reminds me of those companies who sold literal divining rods to the government as high-tech explosive detectors post-9/11.
On the radio this morning, they claimed an accuracy of 30%, which they made seem low, but I thought it was surprisingly high. Regardless of the actual number, fire alarm activations have presumably similar accuracy rates, but nobody blinks an eye at those.
Nobody blinks an eye at those because the response you get is not going to be multiple police aiming guns at you and possibly shooting you because they incorrectly think you are armed.
And let’s not presume. Do you have actual figures?