CommonWealth Beacon, August 2024
The company that sells ShotSpotter, the acoustic gunshot detection technology that has come under attack recently from everyone from Boston city councilors to the state’s two US senators and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, is firing back. And it brought in the big guns to do so.
Holding forth in an interview last week at the Boston offices of Regan Communications, William Bratton, the celebrated former Boston police commissioner who went on to helm the police departments in New York City and Los Angeles, shot back at critics of the technology. Bratton, who sits on the board of SoundThinking, the California-based company that sells ShotSpotter services to police departments, accused elected officials who have questioned the technology of “political posturing” and said community residents, city leaders, and police officers who are closest to the problem strongly support the gunshot detection system.
