Chicago passers who were a 54-year-old man in the middle of 49th Street, who suffered from three shot wounds on his chest, said Chicago police. Nobody called 911 to report gunfire in the area.
The man was found on a block followed by the Shotspotter Gunfire Detection Network of the city until mayor Brandon Johnson ended the company’s contract in September. If the system had been operational this morning, the police and EMS could have warned about the shooting, so that the victim did not have to wait for someone to find him.
According to CPD, officers responded to a call from a person in the 1300-block of West 49th Street around 3:55 am, they found a 54-year-old man who was standing next to his car, who was full of bullet holes.
The victim told the police that someone shot on him from a vehicle that stopped next to him and walked away. The police said that the victim is in a serious state in the Stroger Hospital.
Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th) represents the block where this morning’s victim was found. She asked the effectiveness of the Shotspotter when the system came for a contract renewal last April.
“I live in a department that has benefited, but Shotpotter has also been problematic. If someone knows where my office is, it is close to the highway and I can count the number of times on my hands and feet that the police have appeared and it is the counterfeit fire of the highway, “Taylor said, According to Block Club Chicago. “And so if we spend money on something, let it be something that really works, or something we can collect clear data about.”
Later in the year, when the city council voted for a measure that would give CPD Supt. Larry rushes the authority to enter into a new contract with the Schotspotter without the involvement of Johnson, Taylor Did not show up to vote. But she told reporters that she would have voted to give snelling the power if she had appeared. Hare would have been the 34th mood for the measure, just enough to ignore a Johnson -fato. Instead, it continued with only 33 votes.
Within a few days after the Shotspotter was disconnected on 23 September, CWBCHICAGO launched ‘Brandon’s Bodies’, a series of reports that follows shooting victims who could have benefited from the gunfire detection system.
Taylor, who responded to the third episode in the series, was indignantly: “We have nothing. How did we have a woman who was nine o’clock and nobody came? There must be something in place and they have had enough time to do it. ‘
From this morning the Johnson administration did not use technologies to replace the Shotspotter. The mayor stubbornly refuses to turn on the system while trying to find one.
