ShotSpotter: AI at its Worst - DataScienceCentral.com

Editor's Note: It has come to our attention that several statements in this article have been based on sources that have later been recanted and are factually incorrect. Court documents from the case show that ShotSpotter accurately showed the location of the gunfire as reported in both the real-time alert, as well as in the forensic report. The initial alert was classified as a possible firework, but through their standard procedure of human analysis, it was determined within one minute to be gunfire. The evidence that ShotSpotter provided was later withdrawn by the prosecution and had no bearing on the results of the case. Sixty-five-year-old Michael Williams was released from jail last month after spending almost a year in jail on a murder charge.