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Chicago Communities Support ShotSpotter
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.
Chicagoans support ShotSpotter
Support Using Gunshot Detection Technology to Locate Gunfire Location
Supporting Letters to Aldermen
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…
Keeping ShotSpotter is an absolute necessity. It would be negligent and dangerous for all citizens to get rid of it.
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
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.
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.
Yes I absolutely support gun shots detection in Chicago. Shootings in Chicago has increased dramatically and has become a common occurrence.
We need all the help to deal with gun fire, shooting of innocent people. We need early alerts of gun fire, Period.
Most definitely a need for ALL communities, especially with the rise in violence.
Being a paramedic, those seconds do count.
This is nonnegotiable
IT MATTERS
Our Council Supports ShotSpotter


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.

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?

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.
In the News
ShotSpotter was decommissioned on Sep. 22nd. Chicagoans disagree.
As a campaign promise, Mayor Brandon Johnson commits to cancel ShotSpotter’s contract.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mayor Brandon Johnson says ShotSpotter has proven to be ineffective and plans to decommission ShotSpotter on September 22, 2024
WTTW News, Feb 13, 2024
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
Chicago Gunfire, Victims, Evidence Collections Data and Reports

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, September 16 – 22, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, August 26 – September 1, 2024

ShotSpotter alone alerts CPD to 91 shooting victims in last 19 months

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, August 19 – 25, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, August 12 – 18, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, August 5 – 11, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, July 29 – August 4, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, July 22 – 28, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, July 15 – 21, 2024

CPD ShotSpotter Dashboard, July 8 – 14, 2024
