ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
We had a similar case of ShotSpotter faking shots for the cops in my city. <a href="https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/17/shot-spotter-technology-relshot-spotter-technology-coming-under-increased-scrutiny-judicial-communit/844335001/" rel="nofollow">https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/17/s...</a><p>> On April 1, 2016, the ShotSpotter sensors picked up several audio bursts from a northwest Rochester neighborhood. Unable through its algorithms to detect a specific location, the system did not alert 911 or police. The system also thought the sounds to be the whirring blades of a helicopter, and not gunfire.<p>> Police notified ShotSpotter of the shooting, and the company revisited the audio from the scene. The analysts at first thought there were three shots, then changed to number to four, then five. Analysts found the fifth shot after a prosecution request to review the audio again, prosecutors say.<p>Never any evidence he fired a shot. They needed the fifth shot “found” because the cop shot four times, so magically it was!<p>Reuters did a more detailed expose later: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-rochester-trial/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...</a>