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Pastor Donavan Price leads a victim advocacy organization and leverages ShotSpotter data to strategically deploy resources where and when they’re needed most.

As people start to learn about ShotSpotter, then we’ll all be a little safer, a little better, and everybody will be able to sleep a little more comfortably.

Pastor Donovan Price Founder
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Chicagoans support ShotSpotter

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Support Using Gunshot Detection Technology 
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Supporting Letters to Aldermen

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Shotspotter saved my grandsons life, it picked up the shots and they found him within minutes he had been shot 27 times…he is alive…

C.W. 60612

Keeping ShotSpotter is an absolute necessity. It would be negligent and dangerous for all citizens to get rid of it.

B.M. 60630

It is important to have gunshot detection because there have been many cases where a person is killed and nobody called 911. They had bystander effect and assumed someone else called teh police and often time a life could have been saved. With gun shot detection police can be alerted to investigate to either find a victim or spent shell casing for future analysis

S.H. 60620

Honestly, my community is seeing a shift in gunviolence and the police respond before I can call becasue of Shotspotter technology. This is a tool of many to stop rising crime in Chicago. I don’t see why 10 million a year is a high asking price consider how much money is squandered here. It’s a good investment.

R.T. 60617

Tools to assist our 1st responders need not be topics of discussion to stop or discontinue. Crime is running rapid. Stop placating to the criminals. Those are the only people who want our law enforcement at a disadvantage.

W.M. 60636

Yes I absolutely support gun shots detection in Chicago. Shootings in Chicago has increased dramatically and has become a common occurrence.

K.T.B. 60615

We need all the help to deal with gun fire, shooting of innocent people. We need early alerts of gun fire, Period.

W.M. 60636

Most definitely a need for ALL communities, especially with the rise in violence.

H.H. 60608

Being a paramedic, those seconds do count.

B.I. 60656

This is nonnegotiable

J.T. 60647

IT MATTERS

J.T. 60647
  • Our Council Supports ShotSpotter

    Official seal of the City of Chicago, featuring a circular blue and yellow emblem with the words “City of Chicago - Incorporated 4th March 1837."
    Aldermen Letter regarding 7 demands for budget approval.
    Download the letter here.
    Alderman Anthony Beale discusses the value of ShotSpotter in Chicago.

    So it’s real important that we have the tools necessary to continue to fight the gun violence in our community. Don’t take away this tool that we need. If it was good enough to extend through the convention, to protect the conventioneers, it’s good enough to protect the residents of this city every single day. Every single day.

    Alderman Anthony Beale
    (9th), May 22nd, 2024

    I had another mass shooting….. This is the fourth mass shooting that I’ve had since being an Alderwoman. So I thank all of you. I thank everyone who voted no, I thank you. This is something my community needs. There were 90 shots, six shooters. 90 shots, six shooters. Not one person called the police. So, this is safe for the DNC, but not for my constituents?

    Alderwoman Monique Scott
    (24th), May 22nd, 2024

    I know some of my colleagues mentioned about the police being able to respond, but you forgot another important group of people first responders that save lives and that’s paramedics, that’s firemen that respond to somebody that’s down and bleeding out and suffering and a lot of time fire, paramedics get there before the police so that’s also an important thing. So let’s not just forget about the police, this also helps the fire department when dispatchers dispatch the fire department an ambulance or an engine or a truck that would also save lives.

    Alderman Nicholas Sposato
    (38th), May 22nd, 2024
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    In the News

    Screenshot of a November 13, 2024 tweet from Chicago Contrarian questioning why the city would not resume an agreement with ShotSpotter if nearly $9 million has been set aside for acoustic gunshot detection technology in the next year’s budget.
    #ShotSpotter is already in the budget
    Screenshot of a November 25, 2024 tweet from CWBChicago showing a quoted exchange between a police officer and dispatcher about reports of gunfire south of a station, noting they do not have ShotSpotter to confirm the location.
    Police want #ShotSpotter in Chicago
    Screenshot of an October 30, 2024 tweet by Ald. Raymond Lopez (@RaymondALopez) stating that he and colleagues are demanding the Chicago mayor accept their terms for the 2025 budget, including returning ShotSpotter.
    Alderman want #ShotSpotter back in Chicago
    Screenshot of a November 19, 2024 tweet from CWBChicago reporting that a man was found fatally shot near a West Side playground and noting that ShotSpotter previously monitored the area before the technology was discontinued on September 23.
    #ShotSpotter delivers help to gunshot victims
    Screenshot of a tweet by Paul Laliberte (@PaulLalib) calling for Chicago to bring back ShotSpotter, stating it was wrong to remove it.
    The public wants #ShotSpotter back
    Screenshot of a November 17, 2024 tweet from CWBChicago suggesting the need for gunfire detection technology, quoting a Spot News post about a person shot at 2111 W 47th Street in Chicago who could not provide an exact location before the call dropped.
    ShotSpotter tech pinpoints the location of gunfire
    Screenshot of a tweet by Susana A. Mendoza arguing that ShotSpotter should remain in use, stating police have arrived in time to save lives.
    #ShotSpotter should stay to keep people safe
    Screenshot of a tweet by LaVonte Stewart Sr. describing how ShotSpotter helped confirm where a shooting involving his son occurred
    Father of gunshot victim asks Chicago Mayor to keep #ShotSpotter
    Screenshot of a tweet by Robert Stasch stating that ShotSpotter has been more effective than anti-violence groups in saving lives.
    #ShotSpotter is effective
    Screenshot of a tweet from CWBChicago reporting that firefighters found a woman shot on the 3400 block of West Van Buren and noting that no 911 call was made in an area previously served by ShotSpotter.
    With no 911 calls, gunshot victims go without emergency medical treatment in areas previously served by #ShotSpotter
    Screenshot of a tweet from SpotCrime Brit stating that Chicago police have responded to gunfire 2.5 minutes faster this year when alerted by ShotSpotter, citing CPD data.
    Police response time is 2.5 minutes faster due to #ShotSpotter
    Screenshot of a WGN Morning News tweet stating that ShotSpotter supporters are urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep gun detection technology in Chicago.
    Supporters urge Mayor to keep #ShotSpotter
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    ShotSpotter was decommissioned on Sep. 22nd. 
Chicagoans disagree.

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    As a campaign promise, Mayor Brandon Johnson commits to cancel ShotSpotter’s contract.

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    I can tell you unequivocally that the technology and the analysis helps…we caught offenders at the scene several times because of ShotSpotter.

    Eddie Johnson, March 31, 2023

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    Superintendent Larry Snelling stated, “I support the use of any technology that can help solve crimes and save lives…

    Book Club Chicago, Jan. 24, 2024

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    ShotSpotter saves lives by providing the police department a much faster & accurate way to respond when shots are fired & to pinpoint the location than the 50 year old 911 system.

    Paul Vallas, Feb. 6, 2024

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    Let’s listen to the experts and the people living in these communities … ShotSpotter cuts response times, allows officers to render medical aid faster, preserve evidence and, yes, make arrests.

    Ald Tabares, Feb 8, 2024

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    Every day on the news we are hearing about people who lay in the street…. We’ve been in countless meetings with advocates, countless meetings with victims of gun violence. Their voice is not being heard in this debate..

    Anthony Driver, Chair, CCPSA, Feb. 8, 2024

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he will not extend the Chicago Police Department’s contract with ShotSpotter, fulfilling a key campaign promise.

    WTTW News, Feb 13, 2024

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    The City of Chicago will not renew its contract with SoundThinking that expires February 16, 2024, and will decommission the use of ShotSpotter technology on September 22, 2024.

    Mayor’s Press Office, February 13, 2024

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson says ShotSpotter has proven to be ineffective and plans to decommission ShotSpotter on September 22, 2024

    WTTW News, Feb 13, 2024

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    Mayor Johnson extends the ShotSpotter contract from February 16th, to September 22 in order to extend coverage thru the DNC

    DNC – WTTW News, February 16, 2024

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