Report: Cops Have Been Pressuring ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence
Report: Cops Have Been Pressuring ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence Court records appear to show police departments asking ShotSpotter to change entries to make them more advantageous to court cases. By Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) A new report from Motherboard suggests that, in multiple instances, police departments have exerted pressure on AI-driven gunfire detector firm ShotSpotter—pushing the company to alter evidence against specific suspects, often to bolster the legal cases against them. Advertisement ShotSpotter sells a popular automated system that uses acoustic sensors and algor...