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Chicago Tries Extending ShotSpotter Contract Until After DNC, ShotSpotter Says 'Get Bent'

In his latest effort to bring the once great Second City to utter ruin, on Valentine's Day this week, Johnson announced that he was ending the city's contract with ShotSpotter, a technology that uses audio surveillance to alert police when shots are fired in the city. 

If you read the mainstream media, they will all tell you -- using nearly verbatim language -- that ShotSpotter is 'controversial.'

As can be expected, the 'controversy' is centered around the fact that the algorithmic program has a history of identifying shots more in black and Latino neighborhoods than in other neighborhoods. (Gosh, there couldn't be another reason for that besides 'racism,' could there?)

But despite what the media tries to tell us, ShotSpotter is used in more than 150 cities in America and has been praised by law enforcement. Toledo, Ohio, police chief Geroge Kral called it, 'one of the most important cogs in our wheel of addressing gun violence.' And even the AP reported that Chicago's own police spokesman said that it has helped identify hundreds of shootings that would have otherwise gone unreported. 

The best part is that even though the ShotSpotter contract expires today, Feb. 16, Mayor Johnson has tried to negotiate temporarily extending it through the summer, so it would still be in place when the Democratic National Convention comes to town in August.

Houston — well, Chicago — we have a problem.

This is just like those cities that have stopped using traffic cameras to capture the license plates of speeders and reckless drivers because they “disproportionately” catch more blacks than whites, even though (a) the cameras are placed throughout entire cities and (b) the cameras are colorblind. Banning their use, just as discontinuing Shotspotter, leaves the people in black neighborhoods at the mercy of lawless gang members and other bad actors, and that’s almost certainly by design.

The child run over and killed by a speeding driver, the woman shot while trying to get to work, the 80-year-old who, even if he were willing to brave the streets and walk to his neighborhood pharmacy would find the store shuttered and “relocated” to a safer location — these are the victims of the Wokes, abandoned to their fate by their enemies: black and white “progressive” politicians and “community activists” who are leading the progression to dystopia.