Kansas City Eternal Question: Does Shot Spotter REALLY Work?!?

After all these years . . . What we know for certain . . .

SHOT SPOTTER NEVER LIVED UP TO PROMISES OF CURBING COWTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD GUNFIRE!!!

However . . . 

The tech still proves useful and not as "biased" as some activists have feared.

Here's a worthwhile think piece that some readers might enjoy if only as #TBT retrospective . . .  

"These systems are neither a racist ploy to surveil minority communities nor a panacea for gun violence. Rather, they improve gunshot investigations at the margins, while costing cities some money and officer time.

"Cities should weigh these tradeoffs carefully and ask whether they have the capacity to respond to and investigate gunshot-detection technology (GDT) alerts. But they shouldn’t dismiss the technology outright."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

City Journal -- ShotSpotter: Is It Effective?