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Policing capacity is stretched, so technology that promises to pinpoint gunfire is politically attractive. Thomas Quine/Wikimedia Commons

Did Cape Town’s gunshot detection system work? Why jury is still out on what ShotSpotter achieved

Grant Oosterwyk, University of Cape Town; Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Raffaele F Ciriello, University of Sydney

The issue is not whether cities should use technology for public safety, but how those technologies are chosen, evaluated and governed.

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