“It’s not perfect, but the distance from your house to a ShotSpotter sensor correlates fairly well with your household income. The wealthier you are, the less surveilled you are.”
Albuquerque has 721 ShotSpotter sensors, 31 of them within a mile of Barelas and almost none in Nob Hill or the northeast foothills. A Chicago report confirmed only 11.3% of ShotSpotter alerts as gunfire. APD’s own spokesperson said “We don’t know, technically, where all the sensors are.” The city pays for microphones on poor people’s street lights, and the contract bans it from releasing the data.