ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
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#3Direct link to ruling: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22077446-shotspotter...
Original Vice News story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh...
Previous discussion of above story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959755
Previous related discussion: "A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264686
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? It seems the news in question is not fake.
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#7ShotSpotter execs learn about Streisand effect the hard way. Living in Europe, I have never heard of the company, now I have.
Re: ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
#8Direct link to ruling: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22077446-shotspotter... Original Vice News story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh... Previous discussion of above story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959755 Previous related discussion: "A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264686
Also a link to the original complaint filed by ShotSpotter, which someone else posted here but has been flagged dead:
https://shotspottercomplaint.com/gallery/20211011%20ShotSpot...
This provides some interesting background on the company (obviously biased)
Re: ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
#9I thought this was about VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator.
Re: ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
#10We had a similar case of ShotSpotter faking shots for the cops in my city. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/17/s...
> On April 1, 2016, the ShotSpotter sensors picked up several audio bursts from a northwest Rochester neighborhood. Unable through its algorithms to detect a specific location, the system did not alert 911 or police. The system also thought the sounds to be the whirring blades of a helicopter, and not gunfire.
> Police notified ShotSpotter of the shooting, and the company revisited the audio from the scene. The analysts at first thought there were three shots, then changed to number to four, then five. Analysts found the fifth shot after a prosecution request to review the audio again, prosecutors say.
Never any evidence he fired a shot. They needed the fifth shot “found” because the cop shot four times, so magically it was!
Reuters did a more detailed expose later: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...