{"id":4114,"date":"2022-11-03T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/stopshotspotter-in-seattle-update-november-3\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:05:53","slug":"stopshotspotter-in-seattle-update-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/stopshotspotter-in-seattle-update-november-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#StopShotSpotter: Seattle Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Mayor Harrell\u2019s budget allocates $1 million for a “gunfire detection system” \u2013 presumably ShotSpotter, which Harrell’s tried to bring to Seattle for over a decade. As Lauryn Bray’s <\/figure>\n

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* One reason for this is that less than 10% of ShotSpotter reports produce anything prosecutors can potentially use as evidence of crimes. \u00a0Another reason is that when prosecutors do <\/em>try to use ShotSpotter as evidence, it’s usually challenged; and since the company fiercely guards its proprietary algorithms, prosecutors wind up having to drop charges \u2013 Michael Williams was jailed for a year before prosecutors finally admitted they had insufficient evidence. \u00a0<\/p>\n

** The link above went to an analysis of the study. \u00a0The study<\/a> itself, on Edgeworth Analytics site is currently inaccessible.<\/p>\n

*** One of the ShotSpotter employees at the CPC meeting misleadingly claimed that because ShotSpotter supposedly gives the location of the gunshots, it leads to less intrusive police searches \u2013 the exact opposite of what the actual data shows.<\/p>\n

**** At the CPC meeting, ShotSpotter Director of Community Engagement Dr. Gerard Tate suggested that ShotSpotter data could complement violence interruption programs \u2013 but that ignores the reality of budgeting and the $50,000,000. \u00a0 Dr. Tate also talked about sharing ShotSpotter data for social workers … but One in Ten Black Children in America Are Separated From Their Parents by the Child-Welfare System. A New Book Argues That\u2019s No Accident<\/a> (a discussion of Dorothy Roberts’ book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World<\/a>) or Roberts’ shorter work such as \u00a0The Reproductive Violence of Family Policing & Separation<\/a> and Abolish Family Policing, Too<\/a>, highlights the perils of that approach.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle Mayor Harrell\u2019s budget allocates $1 million for a “gunfire detection system” \u2013 presumably ShotSpotter, which Harrell’s tried to bring to Seattle for over a decade. As Lauryn Bray’s * One reason for this is that less than 10% of ShotSpotter reports produce anything prosecutors can potentially use as evidence of crimes. \u00a0Another reason is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,345],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shotspotter","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","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=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}