BiasHigh
Unreliable ShotSpotter Audio Convicted Black Rochester Man of Shooting Police
- Occurred
- Apr 1, 2016
- Published
- Nov 20, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
ShotSpotter's "unreliable" audio was used as scientific evidence to accuse and convict a Black man of attempting to shoot Rochester's city police, whose conviction was later reversed by a county judge.
Developers
- ShotSpotter
Deployers
- Rochester Police Department
Harmed parties
- Silvon Simmons
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI audio system used as evidence led to wrongful conviction of Black man, highlighting racial bias and severe harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8