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Somerville leaders consider abandoning gunfire-detecting technology
City councilors in Somerville, Massachusetts, are considering getting rid of technology used to capture the sound of gunfire in communities and alert police. Somerville City Councilor At Large Willie Burnley Jr. introduced an order to discuss the effectiveness and placement of the ShotSpotter software, recently re-branded to Sound Thinking. “For me, it’s quite concerning when we have people of...
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Somerville considers abandoning gunfire-detecting technology
City leaders are debating the effectiveness and implementation of software to detect gunshots.