Ed Vogel

Jan 23, 2025 | atlpresscollective.com | Ed Vogel

Faced with organizing to Stop Cop City, Atlanta’s elite responded with the full authority of the state to act with violence against the varied but coordinated elements of this movement.

May 7, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Ed Vogel

In June 2022, the Illinois State Police inked a $362,000 contract with ShotSpotter. The agency planned to pilot the controversial gunshot detection system along eight miles of the Dan Ryan Expressway, beginning at Canalport, just north of Cermak, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and stretching south. The prior year had been a particularly violent one—for the interstate, the city, and the country at large. The ISP logged some 80 shootings on the Dan Ryan in 2021, twice as many as in 2020.

Feb 26, 2024 | chicagotribune.com | Ed Vogel

The Illinois State Police announced plans in January to install even more automated license plate readers, known as ALPRs, adding to the hundreds that the agency and the Department of Transportation already have planted along state roadways. ALPRs are cameras installed along roads that photograph cars and scan license plates, among other things. These cameras are always on, recording every car passing by. Last August, the Illinois State Police reported to Gov.

Jan 31, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Ed Vogel

In 2017, Chicago police began to slowly expand a vast network of microphones mounted atop lampposts and utility poles—the electronic ears of the controversial gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter.

Jan 31, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Ed Vogel

Posted inNews & Politics In 2017, Chicago police began to slowly expand a vast network of microphones mounted atop lampposts and utility poles—the electronic ears of the controversial gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter.