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Did the Houston METRO perform a facial recognition search on a protester on behalf of the Israeli Consulate in Houston?

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Tacoma Drops Shot Spotter Program Tacoma Drops Shot Spotter Program

And another one! Tacoma drops ShotSpotter

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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...

CBP recently reached a record high number of intrusive phone, computer, and other device searches.

“This is essentially a limitless authority that they claim for themselves to search travelers without a warrant to search the full scope of information people carry on them,” Bhandari

ShotSpotter study casts doubt on effectiveness in Fayetteville Third-party evaluation of ShotSpotter in Fayetteville found less than a quarter of alerts were linked to confirmed gunfire

Every minute that is spent debating if ShotSpotter is an effective tool for making communities safer is a minute that we're not dedicating to actually addressing the roots of gun violence.

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Eyes on the heartland A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...

NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years.

Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?

D.C. Police Spend Millions on a Surveillance System That Detects Gunshots and Targets Black Communities MPD has little oversight over ShotSpotter. The department couldn’t describe the benefits of the controversial system and doesn’t know where all the sensors are.

Why is ShotSpotter useful to police? It is and always has been a tool that increases police power over criminalized communities.

Join us to Stop ShotSpotter in your city.

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According to a report from @wcp.bsky.social, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department only respond to ShotSpotter alerts if they receive confirmation of a shooting from another source. What is notable about this is the honesty: even MPD admits that ShotSpotter doesn't do what the company claims.

Privacy Audit & Assessment of ShotSpotter, Inc.’s Gunshot Detection Technology — The Policing Project

Love that SoundThinking cites the NYU Policing Project's report at the Cambridge City Council today. They paid for this report.

At the time of the report, ShotSpotter was an annual donor and CEO Ralph Clark was on the advisory board of the Policing Project.

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Turning Death into a Commodity - Ed Vogel - Inquest ShotSpotter has leveraged gun violence into a multimillion-dollar business that promises safety but delivers only increased policing and drain on the public’s resources.

ShotSpotter is a case study in how the prison–industrial complex has evolved in response to the advent of the data economy: more policing & surveillance, justified by false promises of how tech will deliver public safety—when all it really delivers is profit for corporations. inquest.org/turning-...

Youngkin signs Flock surveillance bill into law, creating new regulations on police The new law sets the stage for a battle in the 2026 legislative session over whether the Flock cameras should be expanded to interstates, bridge-tunnels and other state-maintained roads.

SoundThinking partnered with Rekor to offer ALPRs and compete with Flock Safety.

News out of VA: "Moreover, the law bars Virginia police agencies from sharing their Flock data with their counterparts in other states without a warrant, subpoena or court order."

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This is a screenshot from a #ClearviewAI facial recognition usage report from the St. Johns County, FL Sheriff's Office.

In this 61 page report, the most common reason given for a scan appears to be for suspected "retail theft/shoplifting."

Police protect the interests of capital.

Fun to read this post after reading minutes from an Atlanta fusion center meeting from 2024 where the retired NYPD presenter had some "interesting" historical takes and "advice" for the group gathered.

Here's a portion of the minutes.

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Pritzker, Johnson applaud Peacekeepers violence prevention program as crime drops in Chicago • The TRiiBE Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson stood together to praise new findings crediting a violence prevention program for reductions in crime.

Wait, you're telling me that ShotSpotter and the police do not stop gun violence but there are alternatives that can?

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USCIS just re-upped its subscription to LexisNexis for $3.4 million—I've previously covered how ICE uses this sprawling database of personal data to locate immigrants in this country theintercept.com/2021/04/02/i...

NYPD extends contract with ShotSpotter, despite poor review | StateScoop The New York City Police Department extended its contract with the ShotSpotter service for three years in a deal worth $21.8 million.

The NYPD renewed its contract for ShotSpotter even after data from the Comptroller's office proved that ShotSpotter is a waste.

Why? Police don't want ShotSpotter because it "works." Police want it because it increases their power over the communities they police.

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Oversight measures passed to monitor NYPD surveillance tech expansion | Biometric Update The New York City Council passed a suite of bills are aimed at regulating the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) use of surveillance technologies.

Oversight measures are passed with the best of intentions but in practice these policies are often used to justify, not eliminate, the use of surveillance tech.

The only way to prevent the violence of surveillance tech is to never adopt the tech.

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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.

This needs to become a much bigger story. We cannot let Palantir get this contract. www.wired.com/story/palant... @chrislhayes.bsky.social

None of these tools can make communities safer.

Join us to challenge your city's use of ShotSpotter, ResourceRouter, and the other products that SoundThinking sells to police.

Patrol Management – SoundThinking Learn how SoundThinking’s resource management system ResourceRouter helps law enforcement agencies respond to, investigate, and deter crime.

Now, in 2025, the company is repackaging predictive policing tech under the veneer of "patrol management."

Hmm, I wonder what communities SoundThinking is telling police departments to patrol?

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The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate.

In 2023, the company quietly purchased the remnants of PredPol, then Geolitica after a failed rebrand which attempted to resurrect the company after predictive policing was named for exactly what it is: racism cloaked by data.

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SHOTSPOTTER ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF HUNCHLAB TO SPRINGBOARD INTO AI-DRIVEN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTIVE POLICING – SoundThinking Information on SHOTSPOTTER ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF HUNCHLAB TO SPRINGBOARD INTO AI-DRIVEN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTIVE POLICING at SoundThinking

Recently, SoundThinking announced that, "ResourceRouter's customer base more than doubled in 2024" (www.stocktitan.net/news/SSTI/so...)

ResourceRouter is the company's predictive policing product. It's built from the company's purchase of Hunchlab and PredPol.

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Podcast: A Guide to the FTC's Case Against Meta | TechPolicy.Press Cristiano Lima-Strong discusses the FTC's case against the social media giant with competition law experts William (Bill) Kovacic and Gene Kimmelman.

On Monday, the FTC will kick off its antitrust trial against Meta. Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Cristiano Lima-Strong discussed the case against the social media giant with two competition law experts who both served in government: William (Bill) Kovacic and Gene Kimmelman.

Even if ZeroEyes "worked" it would make Chicagoans less safe.

It's just amazing to see a technology readily being acquired when the Department of Homeland Security questions it.

After the fight over ShotSpotter, Chicago is throwing money at surveillance tech even Department of Homeland Security says is bad.

In a study of ZeroEyes conducted by DHS in 2022, evaluators, "questioned the utility of [ZeroEyes] in emergency response operations."

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A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head The story of Cop City is both deeply local and intensely emblematic of national trends.

super helpful breakdown of the open-records lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation and why it matters, not just for this case, but for the future of government transparency broadly!

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CTA expanding gun-detecting camera surveillance program The CTA's board of directors on Wednesday approved a contract extension with ZeroEyes worth $1.2 million to expand the technology to 1,500 cameras through the summer of 2026.

it feels like i’m screaming into the void sometimes

A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head The story of Cop City is both deeply local and intensely emblematic of national trends.

We are in court with the Atlanta Community Press Collective fighting for basic records about #CopCity and the "private" police foundation's role in it. 1/2

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