| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.02.2026 | “Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes At A High And Dangerous Cost | Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountab... |
| 21.12.2025 | There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Emily Greene-Colozzi
A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon review session at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island... |
| 15.10.2025 | Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices | Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities... |
| 12.12.2024 | Another Study Confirms NYC’s Shotspotter Deployment Was A Waste Of Money | ShotSpotter spent a few years feeling really sure its tech was capable of detecting gunshots. It felt so confident it didn’t mind (allegedly) fudging detection data to help cops secure criminal charges against people who might not have been... |
| 15.11.2024 | Drones and Deportations: A Tale of Two Cities | In the bustling streets of New York City, a new chapter in policing is unfolding. The NYPD has received the green light to deploy drones remotely in three boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan. This move, part of the "Drone as F... |
| 15.11.2024 | Полиции Нью-Йорка разрешили запускать беспилотники удалённо в трёх районах города | Полицейское управление Нью-Йорка (NYPD) получило разрешение Федерального управления гражданской авиации США (FAA) на дистанционное использование беспилотников для реагирования на сообщения об ограблениях и стрельбе. Дроны под управлением оф... |
| 28.09.2024 | Полиция Чикаго отказалась от системы акустического наблюдения ShotSpotter | Полиция Чикаго отказалась от акустической системы обнаружения выстрелов ShotSpotter. На этой неделе компания Sound Thinking начала демонтировать своё оборудование по всему городу. Система работала шесть лет.
Датчики ShotSpotter установлены ... |
| 27.09.2024 | Yet Another Study Shows ShotSpotter Can’t Fight Crime Or Get Help To Shooting Victims Faster | This would seem like a truly extraneous nail in the coffin of ShotSpotter deployment in Chicago, but there are far too many city council members still willing to prop up under-performing tech with faith-based arguments. And there’s the comp... |
| 25.09.2024 | The Battle for Accountability: AT&T and ShotSpotter in the Crosshairs | In the world of corporate giants and tech solutions, accountability often feels like a mirage. Two recent cases highlight this struggle: AT&T’s bribery trial and the fate of ShotSpotter in Chicago. Both scenarios expose the fragility of... |
| 23.09.2024 | Chicago’s ShotSpotter Fans Fail To Save City Contract Despite Last-Minute Maneuvering | The writing was on the wall, or rather, on the City of Chicago’s Inspector General’s report:
Kind of a big problem when the tech was acquired specifically to address Chicago’s years-long acceleration in gun-related crime. That report was is... |
| 13.08.2024 | Pittsburgh Might Be The Latest Major City To Drop ShotSpotter After Years Of Underwhelming Results | Re-branding isn’t going to save ShotSpotter. While it would prefer to be called “SoundThinking,” its flagship product is still its acoustic detection tech — something the company claims reliably detects gunshots.
Whatever the preferred (and... |
| 16.07.2024 | Report Shows It’s Not Just ShotSpotter Underperforming When It Comes To Detecting Gunshots | ShotSpotter may be making the most headlines (and losing the most large contracts), but it has competitors in the field of gunshot detection. But, according to this report by Todd Feathers for Wired, its closest competitor isn’t any better ... |
| 27.06.2024 | NYC Comptroller Report Says ShotSpotter Is Just Wasted Money | Well, we’ll see how long ShotSpotter/SoundThinking will keep making that New York money. The outlook is not good. A lot of this will depend on how well the NYPD can defend the useless product it’s spending millions on, but at the end of the... |
| 20.06.2024 | With Criticism Of Its Tech Going Federal, ShotSpotter Fires Back With Inconsistent Assertions | ShotSpotter isn’t having a great year. Or two.
Its tech has been called into question — both for its ability to truly detect gunshots and for its contribution (if any) to public safety.
What is known about ShotSpotter isn’t great. The most ... |
| 03.06.2024 | City Council Votes To Keep Paying ShotSpotter For Tech That’s Done Nothing To Make The City Safer | It appears Chicago’s city leaders (well… excluding the mayor, Brandon Johnson) aren’t afraid of spending nothing on do-nothing tech that even the city’s watchdog says is a waste of money. They’re not afraid to blow money on stuff that’s doi... |
| 23.05.2024 | Chicago alders vote for greater voice on safety tech | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
City Council members voted 34-14 Wednesday to give themselves a greater voice in determining continued use of safety technology, specifically the controversial shot detection program ShotSpotter.
Why ... |
| 22.05.2024 | OMFG Here Come The ‘News’ Outlets To Do ShotSpotter’s PR Heavy Lifting For It | Generally speaking, a private company’s press release is not “news.” If anyone wants to watch companies stroke themselves off in public, there are plenty of sites dedicated to that kink.
If it’s cop tech purveyors seeking to redeem themselv... |
| 21.05.2024 | Cleveland sets sights on public safety this summer | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The City of Cleveland is making public safety its top priority this summer.
Why it matters: Studies show that crime increases nationwide during warm weather due to more people being outside and the di... |
| 14.04.2024 | Mass shooting in Chicago leaves girl dead, 10 other people injured in Back of the Yards | Girl killed, 10 other people wounded in Chicago mass shooting
Girl killed, 10 other people wounded in Chicago mass shooting 01:51
CHICAGO (CBS) -- One child was killed and ten other people, including three other children, were injured in a ... |
| 02.04.2024 | Some alders want to decide whether to keep ShotSpotter in their wards | An ordinance that would empower alders to decide whether to keep gunshot technology ShotSpotter in their wards is headed to the full City Council for a vote this month.
Why it matters: If passed, the measure would challenge Mayor Brandon Jo... |
| 29.03.2024 | IMPD decides against use of gunshot detection technology | - |
| 27.03.2024 | ShotSpotter Pitches In To Help Cops Open Fire On A Teen Setting Off Fireworks | Back in 2021, the Chicago Office of the Inspector General released a report on the PD’s ShotSpotter tech. The acoustic detection system was apparently mostly useless, no matter what ShotSpotter may have commented in response.
Residents of C... |
| 13.03.2024 | SoundThinking Announces 7 New and Expanded ShotSpotter Deployments Nationwide | - |
| 01.02.2023 | ShotSpotter Employees Not Only Have The Power To Alter Gunshot Reports, But Do It Nearly 10% Of The Time | What’s being presented by ShotSpotter as good news for people who feel they’ve been wrongly accused, doesn’t actually appear to be all that comforting. |
| 08.07.2022 | Judge Tosses Defamation Suit Brought By ShotSpotter Against Vice Media For Reporting On Its Shady Tactics | If you like your dystopia, you can keep your dystopia. |
| 16.12.2021 | ShotSpotter : AIROBOTICS AND SHOTSPOTTER PARTNER TO OFFER INTEGRATED GUNSHOT DETECTION AND REAL-TIME AERIAL VIDEO TO HELP SAVE LIVES AND DETER CRIME IN ISRAEL | « Back to Press Releases
AIROBOTICS AND SHOTSPOTTER PARTNER TO OFFER INTEGRATED GUNSHOT DETECTION AND REAL-TIME AERIAL VIDEO TO HELP SAVE LIVES AND DETER CRIME IN ISRAEL
Airobotics will exclusively sell and deploy ShotSpotter® gunshot detec... |
| 06.10.2021 | Real-time Integration of Fusus and ShotSpotter Platforms Helps Speed up Shooting Investigations | The West Palm Beach Real-Time Crime Center With the combination of video available via Fusus and ShotSpotter alerts, our officers are provided real-time information that we have never had before.
PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. and NEWARK, Calif. (P... |
| 05.10.2021 | As Gun Violence Soars, Pasadena Experiments with AI to Locate Shots | With gun violence surging in Pasadena, the city has sought help in a controversial technology that some residents fear will infringe on their privacy.
Pasadena saw an 85% increase in gun violence in 2020 over the year prior, according to da... |
| 24.09.2021 | Bosch-owned startup Azena has new partnerships and office space in Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh is now home to the innovation arm of an international security tech startup.
Founded in 2018 in Munich, Germany, security camera application startup Azena finally unveiled its Innovation Accelerator, and announced new business pa... |
| 26.08.2021 | Chicago PD Oversight Says ShotSpotter Tech Is Mostly Useless When It Comes To Fighting Gun Crime | Gunshot detection tech provider ShotSpotter is fighting a PR battle on multiple fronts after more news surfaced that its analysts may alter detection records to fit police narratives and investigators’ theories. Communications and court doc... |
| 26.08.2021 | Chicago PD Oversight Says ShotSpotter Tech Is Mostly Useless When It Comes To Fighting Gun Crime | Gunshot detection tech provider ShotSpotter is fighting a PR battle on multiple fronts after more news surfaced that its analysts may alter detection records to fit police narratives and investigators' theories. Communications and court doc... |
| 23.08.2021 | Investigation Of ShotSpotter's Practices Is Raising Questions The Company's Angry Statement Really Doesn't Answer | Earlier this month, another courtroom challenge of evidence exposed another questionable alteration of a gunshot report by law enforcement tech supplier, ShotSpotter. In 2018, a man shot by police officers claimed in his lawsuit that ShotSp... |
| 19.08.2021 | How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence | More On: artificial intelligence
Your voice could reveal if you have heart problems China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities AI is learning how to explain itself to humans White House needs to break-up with former Goo... |
| 19.08.2021 | How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence | More On: artificial intelligence
UN urges moratorium on use of AI that imperils human rights Money, mimicry and mind control: Big Tech slams ethics brakes on AI No cashiers, please: Futuristic supermarket opens in Mideast Do we need humans ... |
| 09.08.2021 | Cities Looking To Dump ShotSpotter Since It's Barely More Useful Than Doing Nothing At All | Tech that supposedly detects gunshots has been deployed in multiple cities across the nation with the intent of providing faster response times to possible violence and to give investigators heads up where illegal activity may have occurred... |
| 03.08.2021 | More Cities Are Moving to Drop Automated Gunshot-Detection Tech | Community organizers in San Diego and Chicago are calling on their city leaders to end contracts with the surveillance company ShotSpotter, which installs hidden microphone arrays and uses a combination of algorithms and human reviewers to ... |
| 02.08.2021 | ShotSpotter (Again) Spotted Altering Shots (And Spots) To Better Serve Police Narratives | Dozens of cities around the nation are relying on early warning tech to help their law enforcement get out ahead of crime. (Well, get out slightly behind crime, to be accurate…) Microphones and sensors placed in strategic locations around c... |
| 11.05.2021 | SHOTSPOTTER, INC.
SHOTSPOTTER : UNVEILS INVESTIGATIVE CASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO IMPROVE CRIME CLEARANCE RATES | « Back to Press Releases
SHOTSPOTTER UNVEILS INVESTIGATIVE CASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO IMPROVE CRIME CLEARANCE RATES
ShotSpotter Investigate Extends Company's Precision Policing Platform and Expands Market Opportunity to More Law Enforcemen... |
| 06.02.2021 | We went inside the police hub that some say has turned Camden, New Jersey, into a ‘surveillance state’ | But for some Camden residents, lower crime doesn’t mean the problem is fixed. Barfield, the longtime resident of Camden and local NAACP president, says the overhaul sparked fears of over-policing in the community.
“People in the community f... |
| 03.02.2021 | The Future Of Work Now: AI-Driven Policing In Wilmington, NC | Officer Melody Raper in her patrol car uses her mobile laptop.Wilmington, NC Police Dept. |
| 12.10.2020 | Police use ShotSpotter technology to accurately pinpoint shooter’s gunfire from about 2 miles away | Be careful of firing off illegal gunshots. Police across the country are showing their commitment to a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to illegal shooting. If you fire a shot, you will get caught. On October 5, a Columbia, South Carolin... |
| 07.12.2018 | All hail the AI overlord: Smart cities and the AI Internet of Things | Enlarge / Shanghai.
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| 08.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 8 | You’ll Laugh! Cry! (Maybe Buy.)
Below is my column from the latest issue of Fortune. Apologies if this concept sounds a tiny bit familiar to dedicated Term Sheet readers…
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| 19.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, May 19 | GOOD INTENTIONS
I want to highlight a portion of Adam Lashinsky’s book about Uber. excerpted by Fortune here and quoted on our latest cover, where CEO Travis Kalanick discusses Uber’s narrative arc from media darling to media villain, and K... |
| 11.05.2017 | Can IoT prevent gun violence across America’s cities? | Local municipalities are increasingly turning to smart city technology to reduce public crime through efforts such as connected lighting, targeted surveillance and data assets.
One of the more innovative smart solutions is ShotSpotter, a gu... |
| 06.03.2017 | All-knowing surveillance system detects gunfire all across America | Originally Published by:
Are those lamps on your local streets detecting when guns are fired? American cities are being upgraded to pinpoint shooters and help police fight gun violence.
Like something out of the futuristic policing TV show ... |
| 17.08.2016 | How Intel and GE plan to make cities smarter | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Intel and General Electric want to make your city... |
| 17.08.2016 | How Intel and GE plan to make cities smarter | Intel and General Electric want to make your city smarter.
Every time I hear about smart cities, I think of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs video game, where a hacker runs amok with the operating system that runs Chicago in the future. And every time ... |
| 12.12.2014 | The Internet of Things: 4 considerations for every business | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This sponsored post is produced by AT&T Mobility.
The next major technological advancement poised to dramatically impact our person... |
| 12.12.2014 | The Internet of Things: 4 considerations for every business | This sponsored post is produced by AT&T Mobility.
The next major technological advancement poised to dramatically impact our personal and professional lives is The Internet of Things. According to author Patrick Tucker in his book The N... |
| 16.06.2011 | ShotSpotter gets $10M to locate gunfire | The company gets support from existing investors to help responders locate gunshots and explosions
ShotSpotter, a developer of acoustic surveillance technology to locate gunshots and other explosions, on Thursday announced the close of a $1... |
| 16.06.2011 | ShotSpotter Receives $10.5M in Equity and Debt Financing | ShotSpotter, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based developer of gunshot location and detection technology, closed a $7m equity financing and received a $3.5m credit facility.
Investors include existing backers City Light Capital, Claremont Creek ... |
| 18.02.2010 | Gunfire detector recorded sounds of Tesla plane crash in East Palo Alto | On Wednesday morning, a small private plane ran into power lines in heavy fog over East Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley. The plane burst into flames and broke up, scattering fire onto a day care center, a home, and three cars, according to fir... |
| 16.09.2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by former California state controller and financial officer Steve Westly, just closed a $120 million fund to fuel revenue-generating cleantech companies. With 13 companies already in the Menlo ... |
| 16.09.2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by... |
| 29.04.2009 | ShotSpotter refines gunshot sensors with QinetiQ buy | ShotSpotter, maker of sensory systems used to detect gunshots, has acquired technology from British defense firm QinetiQ for an undisclosed amount. The deal will extend ShotSpotter’s reach into new markets, including law enforcement and mil... |
| 02.09.2008 | Claremont Creek raises $115M for Fund II | Claremont Creek Ventures, which invests in early-stage information technology and life science companies, has raised almost $115 million towards its second fund, according to VentureWire (citing a regulatory filing). It’s not clear how much... |
| 17.06.2008 | ShotSpotter picks up $7.5M for gunshot sensing | ShotSpotter, a Santa Clara, Calif. startup that can help police and other security forces detect and triangulate gunshots in real-time, has raised $7.5 million for sales, marketing, and international expansion, in its fourth funding to date... |
| 05.06.2007 | ShotSpotter, gunfire tracking company, raises $12 million more | See our story here.
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data technologies a... |
| 04.06.2007 | ShotSpotter, gunfire tracking company, raises $12 million | ShotSpotter, a Santa Clara, CA, company that enables police departments and the military to locate the precise source of gunfire, has raised $12 million in its third round of financing.
The technology, which is deployed in neighborhoods thr... |
| 27.12.2006 | Jobster’s jobs, IBM cools on Second Life, Shotspotter works & more video | Here’s a round-up of the latest tech stuff:
Jobster may cut a significant portion of its 145-person workforce? — Reports of major pending layoffs at Jobster are ironic, not merely because the company helps employers find employees. But beca... |
| 11.04.2006 | Catchup: Google’s Orion, bubbling Internet IPOs, Web 2.0 ad nauseum | Here’s the latest, as of Tuesday afternoon:
Ori Allon
Google to let you avoid clicking through to pages? — Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly... |
| 08.02.2006 | Cowboy Lauder backs company that can spot gunfire | ShotSpotter
ShotSpotter, a Santa Clara company, has developed a way to “acoustically triangulate the origin of gunfire” and trigger 911 dispatch. It has raised $1.86 million in a first round of funding led by Lauder Partners, according to P... |
