Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Squat Spotter

  The gunshot detection system that set in motion the recent fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago routinely reports gunshots where there are none, sending officers into predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods for “unnecessary and hostile” encounters, community groups argued in a court filing Monday. [More]

So the system is not only an unreliable waste of money but a "public/private partnership" (i.e., economic fascism) scam? Shoot, I could have told them that.

Now guess who was lining his pockets.

[Via Jess]

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