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Three Shot Dead in Chicago Neighborhoods
Where ShotSpotter Was Turned Off

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/4/2024 4:28:19 PM

At least three people, including two teenagers, have been killed in Chicago over the last two weeks in shootings that weren’t immediately reported by residents calling 911 and that occurred in neighborhoods previously covered by the city’s now-decommissioned ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system. The body of 19-year-old Sierra Evans was discovered Saturday morning on Chicago’s Southeast Side hours after she was shot, according to media reports. On Tuesday, police found Thaddeus Scott, 53, dead with gunshots to his chest and back on a West Side street. Most recently, police found a 14-year-old boy fatally shot late Tuesday on a West Side sidewalk.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mc squared 10/4/2024 4:36:11 PM (No. 1807584)
They can blame it on a failed ShotSpotter, but we don't have a technology problem - we have a gangsta' problem. All the tech in the world isn't going to stop them from shooting each other. Now I have to organize my sock drawer.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Pnstrpilot 10/4/2024 4:46:19 PM (No. 1807593)
#1, Hizzonor the mayor shut the system down, unilaterally, after a meeting in which EVERYONE in attendance begged him not to do it. If I recall correctly he stated something along the lines of the system being nothing more than 'an alexa on a pole' and not worth maintaining it. Sorry folks, but YOU voted for it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator 10/4/2024 5:19:05 PM (No. 1807612)
Maybe the City Council should pass some laws against shooting guns in the city
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 10/4/2024 5:31:35 PM (No. 1807619)
Any white folks involved?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 10/4/2024 6:12:57 PM (No. 1807635)
I'm sure that former Mayor Buckwheat is glad she is out of Chicago's corruption quagmire.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 10/4/2024 7:36:48 PM (No. 1807657)
" racist for being overly-deployed in minority neighborhoods." (Shotspotter system) How many people would set up bird-watching cameras where there are no birds or drop fishhooks in the water where there are no fish? Chicago has gone terminally stupid.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JHHolliday 10/5/2024 9:32:17 AM (No. 1807864)
#1 is correct. Technology can maybe help a little in spots but the main problem is a lack of morals. Too many of a certain demographic seem to think murder is OK.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/5/2024 2:10:39 PM (No. 1808011)
Chicago, the Original City where Black Lives DO NOT MATTER!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: FJB 10/5/2024 2:36:35 PM (No. 1808025)
This is all part of Obama's intentional destruction of OUR nation. Not HIS.
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