Federal judge sides with prosecutions in dispute over ShotSpotter in Mobile
Mobile police arrested Anthony Lee Jackson on Aug. 9 after a program called ShotSpotter alerted officers to gunshots in the area of Midway and Weinacker avenues near Ladd-Peebles Stadium after 11 p.m. Federal prosecutors later charged him with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
“I don’t see from what I have seen in this hearing that ShotSpotter is anything more than the start of a process,” the judge said. Fitzpatrick cited a 2021 report by the Chicago Inspector General’s Office including that ShotSpotter alerts in that city rarely led to evidence of gun-related crime and tended to change police behavior.But SoundThinking, the company that owns the ShotSpotter system, stands by the technology. Tom Chittum, the firm’s senior vice president for analytics and forensic services, told FOX10 News the the system has an accuracy rate of about 97 percent. He rejected the defense contention.
The officers who testified Monday all said they have found the system to be reliable, using leading police to shell casings, bullet holes, witnesses, victims or other evidence. It was, perhaps, the first legal challenge to ShotSpotter in Mobile, but there have been others throughout the country.
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