{"id":59495,"date":"2024-12-05T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59495"},"modified":"2024-12-05T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:33:25","slug":"hell-gate-83-percent-of-shotspotter-alerts-might-not-have-been-gunfire-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59495","title":{"rendered":"Hell Gate: 83 Percent of ShotSpotter Alerts Might Not Have Been Gunfire at All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hell Gate: <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/nypd-shotspotter-data-report\/\">83 Percent of ShotSpotter Alerts Might Not Have Been Gunfire at All<\/a> by Nick Pinto (&#8220;ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection system used by the NYPD since 2015, doesn&#8217;t work\u2014if what you mean by &#8216;work&#8217; is &#8216;accurately alert police to confirmed gunfire.&#8217; If, on the other hand, you&#8217;re looking for a system that gives police a technological excuse to charge into already overpoliced neighborhoods and start questioning people even in the absence of any confirmed gunshots, well, ShotSpotter might be working great. That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new report released by Brooklyn Defender Services on Wednesday, which offers the most thorough picture yet of the NYPD&#8217;s ShotSpotter program, which uses a network of microphones mounted in neighborhoods to alert the police to suspected gunfire.&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell Gate: 83 Percent of ShotSpotter Alerts Might Not Have Been Gunfire at All by Nick Pinto (&#8220;ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection system used by the NYPD since 2015, doesn&#8217;t work\u2014if what you mean by &#8216;work&#8217; is &#8216;accurately alert police to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59496,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59495\/revisions\/59496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}