Residents concerned over discontinuation of ShotSpotter: ‘How will the police know where all the shootings are?’

Claudia Rodriguez said shootings are so frequent in her Chicago Lawn neighborhood that the sound of gunshots doesn’t surprise her. Despite the constant fear she and her children live in every day, she found some security in knowing that technology helped police respond to shootings fast, she said. But on Monday morning, for the first time in years, a shooting near the hair salon where she works wasn’t picked up by the gunshot detection system known as ShotSpotter, a controversial mechanism Mayor Brandon Johnson has criticized as inaccurate and too expensive. It was taken offline at 12:01 a.m. Monday, according […]