“Cops tend to get out there quicker on ShotSpotter calls,” Eric Piza, a Northeastern University criminologist who has studied the technology’s implementation in Chicago and Kansas City, told me. “ShotSpotter calls come in sooner than 911 calls about gunfire. Police collect more evidence when they’re on ShotSpotter scenes.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Tell it to Mayor Pinhead.