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After nearly a year in jail, 65-year-old Chicago resident Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against the city on the grounds that he was wrongly arrested because of the ShotSpotter program.
According to the federal suit, filed by Williams, officers put "blind faith" in the gunshot-locating tech, which resulted in an arrest and stopped police from pursuing other leads.
The ShotSpotter activity in Chicago could be stopped if the suit is successful. The city quietly renewed its $33 million contract with the tech company last year.
Shot Spotter is controversial. A Vice investigation in the same year cited the death of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old black boy who was shot by Chicago police responding to a ShotSpotter alert, as evidence that ShotSpotter didn't have on-site evidence.
There were more than 40,000 dead-end ShotSpotter deployment within two years.
Police didn't confirm a motive for Williams, who was accused of shooting a man while giving him a ride home from a protest. The only thing they had was a soundless security video of a car.
ShotSpotter insists that their artificial intelligence system is highly accurate with a 97 percent aggregate accuracy rate for real-time detections across all customers.
The ShotSpotter alert put an innocent man in prison and led to the death of an innocent child. The case will be interesting to watch.
There is a lawsuit about ShotSpotter being used in a murder case.
ShotSpotter uses gun shot detection cameras to alert cops to slam doors.
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