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Mayor Brandon Johnson's allies stall effort to keep ShotSpotter in place in Chicago

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Aldermen were set to vote Wednesday on a measure to require a full City Council vote before removing ShotSpotter from any wards, but two allies of the mayor moved to delay the vote.

CHICAGO -- A bid to keep controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in place in Chicago, despite Mayor Brandon Johnson 's plan to end the contact this fall, hit a temporary roadblock on Wednesday.Aldermen were set to vote Wednesday on a measure to require a full City Council vote before removing ShotSpotter sensors from any wards, but two allies of the mayor – Alds. Daniel La Spata and Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez – moved to delay the vote.

Johnson's office has blasted the effort to require a ward-by-ward approach to removing ShotSpotter.'Public safety is a citywide issue within the responsibility of the police department, with oversight by the Office of the Mayor, and cannot be effectively managed on a ward-by-ward basis in a way that undercuts that authority,' Johnson's office said in a statement earlier this month.

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