Organizations will ask the city for more resources for investigations and support for families.
CHICAGO â Chicago City Council leaders will meet with the Public Safety Committee to discuss the controversial policing technology ShotSpotter.The city's contract with the company is about to expire. Mayor Brandon Johnson and several aldermen disagree over whether the city should keep using the gunshot detection technology. The technology has monitored Chicago neighborhoods for more than six years and has cost the city tens of millions of dollars.
The ongoing crisis of missing and murdered women and girls of color in Chicago will be the focus of a Chicago City Council Committee.As part of this testimony, organizations will ask the city for more resources for investigations and support for families on Monday morning. The City Council Committee on Public Safety will address the ongoing issue starting at 10:30 a.m.
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