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Why on earth would police be installing these devices where most of the crime is committed? Besides it making sense, of course. I understand the objection, though. They don't want their sons and daughters to get caught and go to jail or prison. It can't be helped, I'm afraid. Sit down and quit flapping you fat lips, Tyrone and Shamika. You did a **** job of parenting and your kids will pay the price for it. Better them than society as a whole.

US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases | WIRED

The DOJ is being asked to investigate whether a gunshot-detection system widely in use across the US is being selectively deployed to justify the over-policing of mainly Black neighborhoods, as critics of the technology claim.Attorneys for the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center—a leading US-based civil liberties group—argue that “substantial evidence” suggests American cities are disproportionately deploying an acoustic tool known as ShotSpotter in majority-minority neighborhoods. Citing past studies, EPIC alleges that data derived from these sensors has encouraged some police departments to spend more and more time patrolling areas where the fewest number of white residents live.In a letter today to Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, attorneys for EPIC call for an investigation into whether cities using ShotSpotter are running afoul of the Civil Rights Act—namely, Title VI, which forbids racial discrimination by anyone who receives federal funds.“State and local police departments around the country have used federal financial assistance to facilitate the purchase of a slew of surveillance and automated decision-making technologies, including ShotSpotter,” EPIC says. Despite mounting evidence of ShotSpotter’s discriminatory impact, there is no indication that its Title VI compliance has ever been seriously assessed. 
ShotSpotter has been deployed in more than 150 cities in the US. It relies on internet-connected acoustic sensors, often attached to utility poles, and aims to detect gunfire using machine algorithms. SoundThinking says “acoustic experts” are on staff around the clock to review alerts and “ensure and confirm that the events are indeed gunfire.” The company claims its sensors have a 97 percent accuracy rate, disputing reports that alerts triggered by fireworks and other high-impact sounds affect the system’s accuracy.


 
 
 

They go where the crime is at and if that happens to be *** infested neighborhoods then so be it.

Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 5:31 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Sep 2023, 5:31 pm

Why on earth would police be installing these devices where most of the crime is committed? Besides it making sense, of course. I understand the objection, though. They don't want their sons and daughters to get caught and go to jail or prison. It can't be helped, I'm afraid. Sit down and quit flapping you fat lips, Tyrone and Shamika. You did a **** job of parenting and your kids will pay the price for it. Better them than society as a whole.

US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases | WIRED

The DOJ is being asked to investigate whether a gunshot-detection system widely in use across the US is being selectively deployed to justify the over-policing of mainly Black neighborhoods, as critics of the technology claim.Attorneys for the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center—a leading US-based civil liberties group—argue that “substantial evidence” suggests American cities are disproportionately deploying an acoustic tool known as ShotSpotter in majority-minority neighborhoods. Citing past studies, EPIC alleges that data derived from these sensors has encouraged some police departments to spend more and more time patrolling areas where the fewest number of white residents live.In a letter today to Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, attorneys for EPIC call for an investigation into whether cities using ShotSpotter are running afoul of the Civil Rights Act—namely, Title VI, which forbids racial discrimination by anyone who receives federal funds.“State and local police departments around the country have used federal financial assistance to facilitate the purchase of a slew of surveillance and automated decision-making technologies, including ShotSpotter,” EPIC says. Despite mounting evidence of ShotSpotter’s discriminatory impact, there is no indication that its Title VI compliance has ever been seriously assessed. 
ShotSpotter has been deployed in more than 150 cities in the US. It relies on internet-connected acoustic sensors, often attached to utility poles, and aims to detect gunfire using machine algorithms. SoundThinking says “acoustic experts” are on staff around the clock to review alerts and “ensure and confirm that the events are indeed gunfire.” The company claims its sensors have a 97 percent accuracy rate, disputing reports that alerts triggered by fireworks and other high-impact sounds affect the system’s accuracy.

The left complains the ghettoes are over policed, but you never hear a peep out of them about the over-representation of abortion services to the ghettoes.

And just notice that ghetto - a word that USED to mean ethnic neighborhood - now means BLACK neighborhood. No one wants to live around "those people."