Pa. Supreme Court rules in case centered on controversial gunshot surveillance system

This article was originally published by the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Pennsylvania’s highest court upheld a Pittsburgh man’s arrest when police were summoned by the city’s ShotSpotter system despite civil rights advocates arguing the technology has been proven unreliable. ShotSpotter is a system marketed to law enforcement and used in dozens of cities around the nation that purports to identify the sound and location of gunfire to dispatch police. In a sharply divided decision, the state Supr...