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Adam Toledo is the 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police in Chicago at the end of March. Toledo had a gun when he ran from police and dropped it behind a fence just before he was shot. However, it was 21-year-old Ruben Roman who had fired the shots into the street that prompted the police response. In fact, it wasn’t a complaint from neighbors but an alert from the city’s ShotSpotter system that resulted in officer Eric Stillman being sent to the scene.
If you’re not familiar with ShotSpotter, it’s a system of microphones which record and triangulate the position of gunfire 24/7. The system then sends an alert to police with an exact location where the gunfire was detected. The idea is to allow police to arrive on the scene of a crime in instances where neighbors never call about the shots, perhaps even to capture the shooter before he gets away or save the life of the victim.
Despite divisions in Chicago’s Latino community over Adam Toledo’s death, a desire for a more empathetic and culturally aware police force bridges divides.
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