{"id":50500,"date":"2022-07-15T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T23:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50500"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:27:15","slug":"shotspotter-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50500","title":{"rendered":"SHOTSPOTTER SPREADING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials are increasingly turning to a gunshot detection technology to help address gun violence, despite serious concerns over its accuracy and potential side effects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 130 cities and towns across the country have now installed the ShotSpotter systems, according to a report released Thursday from the group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). That\u2019s up from about 85 cities in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That expansion has been aided by federal funding, with several cities including Detroit, New Haven, Conn., and Albuquerque, N.M., signing big contracts with ShotSpotter using money from the American Rescue Plan Act. The increase could accelerate with new funding that\u2019s been allocated for school safety after the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when elected officials are facing more pressure than ever to combat gun violence and we see cities spending hundreds of millions of dollars on gun prevention tech, including all the new money that Congress authorized after Uvalde, we have to look at the fact that this technology \u2014 ShotSpotter \u2014 is expensive, dangerous and just doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Albert Fox Cahn, STOP\u2019s executive director, said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials are increasingly turning to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50501,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions\/50501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}