MA city votes to disable gunshot detection system just one week after major shooting event

... system impacts black people and illegals the most.

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A slew of liberal activists descended upon the Cambridge City Council in recent weeks to get the city to disable its gunshot detection devices, which help police pinpoint where gunshots are coming from to better respond to shootings.

Police Commissioner Pauline Wells begged the council on Monday not to deactivate the devices, citing multiple recent cases where lives have been saved due to the system, but to no avail.


More from the Harvard Crimson on April 30:

In a presentation Wednesday, the Cambridge Police Department said ShotSpotter has verified more gunshots than 911 calls have. Police officials also said officers receive ShotSpotter alerts on their phones, allowing them to respond faster 'when seconds can make the difference.'

The Crimson cites three major groups in the nexus of liberal activists who pushed to shut the devices down (they will be turned off in the next 90 days). First are those concerned about privacy, since the audio system is always listening.

This group gets tossed in with another organization that is briefly mentioned by activist Stephanie Guirand, called The Black Response. The Crimson says The Black Response is an "anti-policing organization," which is technically true in that its stated goal is, ahem, "defunding and abolishing the Cambridge Police Department" in order to "uplift black and brown communities."

The third group are those worried about illegal aliens getting deported. Quote:

Spencer Piston, a Boston University political science professor, said ShotSpotter alerts could indirectly increase federal involvement if they lead to arrests. Once a person is booked, he said, their fingerprints are entered into a database accessible to federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

'Presumably, this has already happened because ShotSpotter alerts have led to arrests, arrests lead to fingerprints, fingerprints are put into the database, and the database is accessible by ICE,' Piston said.

Piston also argued that ICE could potentially obtain Cambridge ShotSpotter data through SoundThinking, which he said owns the data collected by the devices and could legally sell it.

Wait, you're telling me that if a foreigner gets caught shooting a gun on American streets, that federal agents might want to detain and deport said foreigner? The humanity!!

The reason I mention this to you is to assert that End Wokeness' caption in the video of the council meeting is correct. While the council did not specifically say they were deactivating these crucial devices in order to "protect black residents and migrants," that is actually the thrust of it.

This, of course, means that the criminals in high-crime areas will be free to commit more crimes thanks to the color of their skin and immigration status. Everyone who is not part of these privileged groups will just have to dodge the bullets.

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