Mayor Johnson, ShotSpotter
Chicago mayor seeking alternatives as city's ShotSpotter contract nears expiration
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is exploring other options as the city's contract with ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology, nears its expiration.
Chicago mayor seeking alternatives as ShotSpotter technology nears discontinuation
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is exploring other options as ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology, nears its discontinuation.
Mayor Johnson rejects plan to keep ShotSpotter; company to remove gunshot sensors
CHICAGO – A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the controversial gunshot detection technology – the device’s parent company, SoundThinking, said it would begin the process of ...
Chicago alderpeople vote to keep ShotSpotter technology, Mayor Johnson plans to veto
Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to get rid of the controversial gunshot detection program, saying it's too expensive and doesn't actually help fight crime.
Opinion
Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
We’ve seen plenty of Chicago mayors do things that turned out to be wildly unpopular in retrospect. Richard M. Daley’s disastrous parking-meter deal leaps to mind. But Mayor Brandon Johnson’s continued insistence on ending Chicago’s use of the ShotSpotter gun-detection technology is one for the record books when it comes to head-scratching political decisions.
Alderman: Mayor Johnson asks Chicago schools CEO Martinez to resign, Martinez says no
Martinez has two years left on his contract​, which was approved by the Chicago Board of Education after he was appointed in ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson tells CPS CEO Pedro Martinez he wants him out, sources say
After months of tension, Mayor Brandon Johnson told Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez this week that he wants the ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson asked CPS CEO Pedro Martinez to resign: sources
FOX 32 Chicago has learned that Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for his resignation this ...
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
It’s an age-old maxim to say politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. Coalition building is about bringing people ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson tells Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to resign, sources say
Multiple sources told ABC7 Chicago that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has told Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez he ...
'Remember the Date': Chicago mayor declares Sept. 20 as Belal Muhammad Day to honor UFC champ
At first, it was "Remember the Name." Now, it's "Remember the Date." UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad has been ...
Illinois Policy2d
ShotSpotter support highest in Black, Hispanic Chicago wards mayor claims it hurts
Where is support strongest for the gunshot detection system Chicago’s mayor wants to dump? In the Black and Hispanic wards ...
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Chicago Police to turn off ShotSpotter, department announces
After months of debate and speculation, the Chicago Police department has confirmed that the controversial gunshot detection ...