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Re:ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than d... by tomcam on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:43PM (#32260255)
What perplexes me is that in the USA we have a constitutional right to face our accuser in court. But this is a piece of software.

> In one case, a 65-year-old grandfather was held in Cook County Jail for nearly a year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic before his case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

I mean, WTF.

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Re:ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than d... by esoterica on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:27AM (#32260478)
I dug up the story behind that 65 year old grandfather.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-shot...

Prosecutors accuse him of shooting his passenger, but he claims that another car pulled up next to him and shot his passenger instead. In either case shotspotter both correctly identified a gunshot and the location of the gunshot, so what exactly did they do wrong here? By the defendant's own admission the gunshot that triggered the alert was real! Unless crucial details are being omitted somewhere it seems like a hatchet job to me.

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Re:ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than d... by tomcam on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:10AM (#32260693)
Great points. Thanks for doing that research. I should’ve done it myself and I am embarrassed that I did not.
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