Manes studied the ShotSpotter technology and found that 89% turned up no gun-related crime and 86% led to no report of any crime at all. "We needed to know whether this system actually does what it claims to do.
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“High-tech tools can create a false justification for the broken status quo of policing and can end up exacerbating existing racial disparities," Jonathan Manes, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law said. MORE:8 killed in mass shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility suspect, 19, was former employeeĬritics say however that ShotSpotter disproportionally targets African-Americans, especially in a city like Chicago. "We know at least in Oakland, there was at least 100 times where officers, through a ShotSpotter alert, were able to get to that location and find a victim and basically apply life saving measures to save a persons." "Twenty percent causing 80 percent," Clark said, quoting Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who explained that roughly 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes. So, although you might not put cuffs on the perpetrator at that point in time, oftentimes they link critical clues about who they were," he explained. And that's critically important to follow on investigation around who might have been involved in that shooting. "If they're not dealing with the perpetrator or aiding a victim, they're much more likely to be able to recover physical forensic evidence in the form of shell casings as well as interview witnesses. And we'll see the person who were they with? What color was there? Who were they arguing with? Countless countless times it helps and puts a narrative to a story where without it, you would have literally nothing, it's very hard to search all of New York City, but when it when when it allows you to start zeroing down, that's where and then there's a lot of other benefits in terms of actually recovering ballistics," he said.Ĭlark said the technology is useful even if police do not make an arrest on the day the shooting occurred. "Even if we don't find the casings, we'll have the video on the block. You know that something that we perpetuate that cycle of violence, just because it's all driven by fear, it's a fear reaction," she said.Īs for investigating shootings in New York, Shea said ShotSpotter is an immensely helpful tool. "There's that feeling when you feel like there's no control in your environment, and you can't control your situation and things feel hopeless. She explained that children who have witnessed shootings have a difficult time expressing their feelings in some cases and doctors at the BRAIN Center identify manageable ways they are able to cope with seeing their friend or loved one shot. Strauss treats children immediately after they have been shot in Memphis, not for physical wounds but for mental health.
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They're reliving that moment and their body is still in that trauma."
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Some of the kids are catatonic, meaning they have a hard time speaking they have they have a hard time just doing daily tasks. "Kids who have been shot, their body is in such shock there's just such fear," Schauss explained.