Pirate News: NYC Comptroller – ShotSpotter an Expensive Boondoggle

Eli, Joe, Steve and James discuss the NYC Comptroller’s ShotSpotter report, Secretary of State Galvin’s statements on elections, housing undocumented immigrants at the former Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk, Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Senate’s proposed housing bill.

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Links we discussed:

• NYC Comptroller: The NYPD’s $22 Million Gunshot Detection System Flags an Awful Lot of Noises That Don’t Seem to Be Gunshots;
• Audit Report on the New York City Police Department’s Oversight of Its Agreement with ShotSpotter Inc. for the Gunshot Detection and Location System;
• Public distrust in election process concerns Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin;
• First migrant families move into emergency shelter at old Massachusetts prison, despite protest;
• Mass. Senate approves housing bill that blends policy, financing.

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