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SUMMARY:TBR Community Dinner & ShotSpotter Presentation
DESCRIPTION:The Black Response will host a community education workshop on ShotSpotter. This is the third event in a series. We encourage all Pirate Party supporters to attend this presentation. The community dinner is a potluck\, so please bring some food to share. \nThe event will feature presentations by Gabriel Rojas\, University of Chicago doctoral candidate\, and Valerie Werder\, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Gabriel Rojas has conducted extensive research on ShotSpotter in Chicago. His presentation will examine the history of SoundThinking (formerly ShotSpotter)\, the logic and strategies for ShotSpotter’s implementation\, and the legal and affective harms associated with the ShotSpotter system. \nValerie Werder’s research critically examines police body camera footage. She explores the financialization of police body cameras\, their implementation and governing protocols\, and notably\, the contractual terms surrounding data and access of police body cameras and footage. Her presentation will also reflect on the City of Boston’s 2013 contract with the corporation (then known as) ShotSpotter as well as a speculative analysis of how the ShotSpotter data might be used if the devices\, the data\, and financialization follows the trajectory of police body cameras. Please join us for a thought provoking set of presentations.  \n\n\n\nThe Cambridge Community Center is at 5 Callendar Street\, Cambridge. It is a five minute walk from Central Square and the MBTA Red Line stop there. Please register in advance. \n \nPast ShotSpotter presentations:
URL:https://masspirates.org/blog/event/tbr-community-dinner-shotspotter-presentation-march/
LOCATION:Cambridge Community Center\, 5 Callender Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Forensic Snake Oil: Shotspotter Is Untrustworthy and Dangerous
DESCRIPTION:Join for a startling look at a surveillance system already in use in Cambridge and financed by money from the Department of Homeland Security. Shotspotter is an acoustic surveillance technology that the City of Cambridge has deployed to detect gunshots. While this may sound beneficial on the surface\, there are serious concerns about how this technology impacts our community—particularly communities of color. \nThis event is hosted by First Parish Church in Cambridge\, The Black Response and the Stop ShotSpotter Coalition. The speaker is Spencer Piston\, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University. \n\n\n\nThe First Parish Church is at 3 Church Street\, Cambridge. It is in Harvard Square and a minute walk from MBTA Harvard Square Red Line.   \n \n  \n  \nPast ShotSpotter presentations: \n \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://masspirates.org/blog/event/forensic-snake-oil-shotspotter-is-untrustworthy-and-dangerous/
LOCATION:First Parish Church\, 3 Church Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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