Residents in Seattle's Central District had the opportunity to question representatives from ShotSpotter, a controversial acoustic gunshot detection system.
FILE – An employee sits at a computer in a ShotSpotter monitoring center. members of the public got to directly question representatives of ShotSpotter.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell had been working on introducing ShotSpotter in Seattle for more than decade. Harrell sat on Seattle City Council from 2008 to 2020 before he was elected mayor in 2021 and tried several times to get the city to approve the technology.Seattle Police Department's African American Advisory CouncilIn front of more than a dozen residents in Seattle's Central District, Alfred Lewers Jr. insisted that ShotSpotter was a program worth using.
“This technology simply doesn’t work. In fact, the research shows that it hurts police response times by repeatedly sending officers to mistaken alerts, pulling them away from doing work elsewhere,” said former Seattle Councilmember Lisa Herbold.
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