I'm not sure why going after "low hanging fruit" should be considered a bad strategy? If you can't build the resolve that leads to removing low hanging fruit in pursuit of the actual problem, how likely is it that your advocacy will ever fix the actual problem?
In any case, I believe the anti-ShotSpotter advocates not only assert that SS is cost-ineffective, but that its alerts lead to increased escalation:
> There was another study that found that the police, in areas where they know ShotSpotter alerts happen, tend to arrive more amped up and ready to jump out and engage. And in Chicago, this has had repercussions. Most recently, there was a case where a ShotSpotter alert went off, and it was unclear whether it was a gunshot or a firework. But the police arrived. They saw a man in his front yard, and they opened fire on him immediately. Fortunately, they didn’t hit him. And it turned out that it was just a firework. It was not a gunshot. The man did not have a gun.
Because the actual problem is so much larger than shotspotter. The cops are gonna keep killing people and companies are gonna keep finding a way of facilitating this while making money.
I don't think its wrong to combat the shotspotter, but looking from the outside in it's just such a bizarre situation that US cops will kill people no matter what. Its very much like trying to do things against swatting, except doing how its handled in the rest of the world by not killing random civilians just because a crime was phoned in.
In any case, I believe the anti-ShotSpotter advocates not only assert that SS is cost-ineffective, but that its alerts lead to increased escalation:
> There was another study that found that the police, in areas where they know ShotSpotter alerts happen, tend to arrive more amped up and ready to jump out and engage. And in Chicago, this has had repercussions. Most recently, there was a case where a ShotSpotter alert went off, and it was unclear whether it was a gunshot or a firework. But the police arrived. They saw a man in his front yard, and they opened fire on him immediately. Fortunately, they didn’t hit him. And it turned out that it was just a firework. It was not a gunshot. The man did not have a gun.
https://slate.com/business/2024/02/shotspotter-chicago-cance...