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Stop ShotSpotter National Coalition
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Why is ShotSpotter useful to police? It is and always has been a tool that increases police power over criminalized communities.

Join us to Stop ShotSpotter in your city.

washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7660...
D.C. Police Spend Millions on a Surveillance System That Detects Gunshots and Targets Black Communities
MPD has little oversight over ShotSpotter. The department couldn’t describe the benefits of the controversial system and doesn’t know where all the sensors are.
washingtoncitypaper.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
None of these tools can make communities safer.

Join us to challenge your city's use of ShotSpotter, ResourceRouter, and the other products that SoundThinking sells to police.
April 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Now, in 2025, the company is repackaging predictive policing tech under the veneer of "patrol management."

Hmm, I wonder what communities SoundThinking is telling police departments to patrol?

www.soundthinking.com/law-enforcem...
Patrol Management – SoundThinking
Learn how SoundThinking’s resource management system ResourceRouter helps law enforcement agencies respond to, investigate, and deter crime.
www.soundthinking.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In 2023, the company quietly purchased the remnants of PredPol, then Geolitica after a failed rebrand which attempted to resurrect the company after predictive policing was named for exactly what it is: racism cloaked by data.

www.wired.com/story/soundt...
The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech
SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate.
www.wired.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Even if ZeroEyes "worked" it would make Chicagoans less safe.

It's just amazing to see a technology readily being acquired when the Department of Homeland Security questions it.
April 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM