{"id":4098,"date":"2022-10-12T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/public-comments-on-shotspotter-at-seattle-budget-committee-hearings\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:59:53","slug":"public-comments-on-shotspotter-at-seattle-budget-committee-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/public-comments-on-shotspotter-at-seattle-budget-committee-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"#StopShotSpotter: my comments at the Seattle Budget Committee hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusOfPrivacy\/status\/1579986305886588928\">livetweet thread here<\/a> for context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Jon. My comments today focus on the $1 million for gunshot detection. \u00a0Gun violence is a huge problem \u2013 but systems like ShotSpotter won\u2019t help address it.<\/p>\n<p>These systems don\u2019t reduce crime. Instead, they waste police time and resources \u2013 and harm people in the communities they\u2019re supposed to protect. In Chicago, police responding to a ShotSpotter alert shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo. Michael Williams and Daniel Ortiz were wrongfully arrested as a result of ShotSpotter. Just last week, Peoria police responding to a ShotSpotter alert shot and killed Samuel Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>These systems don\u2019t even help after the crimes have happened. Last year, the Chicago Office of the Inspector General\u2019s investigation concluded Chicago Police Department\u2019s data \u201cdoes not support a conclusion that ShotSpotter is an effective tool in developing evidence of gun-related crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance isn&#8217;t safety. \u00a0Please don\u2019t waste taxpayer money on this harmful pseudo-science technology. Instead, fund community-based responses to public safety and the other priorities of the Solidarity Budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the livetweet thread here for context. I\u2019m Jon. My comments today focus on the $1 million for gunshot detection. \u00a0Gun violence is a huge problem \u2013 but systems like ShotSpotter won\u2019t help address it. These systems don\u2019t reduce crime. Instead, they waste police time and resources \u2013 and harm people in the communities they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[468,467,345],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-public-comment","tag-shotspotter","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}