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Told ya – I get to pick and I like brunettes. So there. And yes, there IS a gun there – you just missed it.<\/p>\n
Dayton, Ohio implemented Shot Spotter, the gunshot-reporting\/locating system, to great fanfare in 2019. They claim it has been such a spectacular success that they are – shutting it down.<\/p>\n
It has led to arrests in 74 incidents.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Darryl Fairchild told Mamie that the data doesn\u2019t justify claims that the technology has helped solve crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’d certainly be open. If there is data that shows that, to rethinking this,” said Commissioner Fairchild.<\/p>\n
The City of Dayton says the ShotSpotter has led to a 55% reduction in all crime categories, compared to 37% without it.\u00a0 WKEF Dayton<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So it helped reduce crime 18% more than it was already going down? Right. Good reason to dump it.<\/p>\n
And yet, just two years later, Mayor Whaley’s Dayton is shuttering the program, having now spent more than $615,000 total (not to mention the time and money spent to send officers on calls which only led to arrests 2% of the time<\/a>). Whaley’s system has produced just 74 arrests, adding up to a cost of $8,310 per arrest. (Numbers of how many of that 74 who were actually convicted were not provided in the article.) Buckeye Firearms<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So since 2019 it has aided in less than 75 arrests, cost over $600,000, and is so successful it is getting terminated. But hey, the politicians DID something, right?<\/p>\n
Oh, for you Ohio folks – it was brought in by Nan Whaley, currently running for Governor of your fair state. Might make note of that come Voting Day.<\/p>\n
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