The Maker of ShotSpotter has purchased the most popular Predictive Policing Tech in the world

SoundThinking, the company that made ShotSpotter, a predictive policing software, has acquired patents and customers of PredPol. The acquisition will allow it to apply machine learning to public safety. A US-based civil liberties group, Electronic Privacy Information Center, has claimed that “substantial evidence” suggests American cities are disproportionately deploying ShotSpotter in majority-minority neighbourhoods.