{"id":2693,"date":"2022-10-13T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2022-10-13T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:23:23","slug":"cities-vs-gun-shot-locating-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/cities-vs-gun-shot-locating-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities vs. Gun Shot Locating Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? The Mayor of Seattle has supported gun shot locating technology for nearly a decade since he was a city council member.  The technology installs microphones and triangulates the sound. One of the apps, ShotSpotter, claims a 97% effective rate.  Meanwhile in Dayton, OH the city will not renew its ShotSpotter contract because even with successes, it &#8220;could not show that the software has done enough to reduce crime to justify its cost&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does this matter? A study from Northwest University analyzed 2 years of ShotSpotter data from Chicago, and found that \u201c90% of ShotSpotter alerts lead police to find <strong>no evidence <\/strong>to corroborate gunfire.&#8221; Shot spotter did change how police officers interacted in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2022\/seattle-mayor-makes-another-bid-for-city-to-use-controversial-gunshot-detection-technology\/\">GeekWire | Seattle mayor makes another bid for city to use controversial gunshot detection technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? The Mayor of Seattle has supported gun shot locating technology for nearly a decade since he was a city council member. The technology installs microphones and triangulates the sound. One of the apps, ShotSpotter, claims a 97% effective rate. Meanwhile in Dayton, OH the city will not renew its ShotSpotter contract because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}