SurveillanceMedium
Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful
- Occurred
- Oct 9, 2012
- Published
- Jun 20, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
ShotSpotter algorithmic systems locating gunshots were reported by police departments for containing high false positive rates and wasting police resources, prompting discontinuation.
Developers
- ShotSpotter
Deployers
- Troy Police Department
- Syracuse Police Department
- San Francisco Police Department
- San Antonio Police Department
- New York City Police Department
- Fall River Police Department
- Chicago Police Department
Harmed parties
- Troy residents
- Troy Police Department
- Syracuse residents
- Syracuse Police Department
- San Francisco residents
- San Francisco Police Department
- San Antonio residents
- San Antonio Police Department
- New York City residents
- New York City Police Department
- Fall River residents
- Fall River Police Department
- Chicago Residents
- Chicago Police Department
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ShotSpotter is a surveillance system for gunshot detection, and the incident involves reliability issues leading to discontinuation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8