Brandon Johnson in no rush to get rid of ShotSpotter despite campaign promise

Mayor Brandon Johnson will listen to different perspectives about ShotSpotter before deciding whether to cancel the contract, a senior adviser tells the Chicago Sun-Times. (AP file)

It looks like Mayor Brandon Johnson is in no rush to honor his campaign promise to pull the plug on the Chicago Police Department’s contract for the controversial gunfire detection technology known as ShotSpotter.

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to quietly extend the multi-million-dollar contract until at least Feb. 16 has given Johnson some breathing room — and cracked the door open for him to reconsider getting rid of the system that was the first to alert CPD of the fatal shooting May 6 of one of their own: 24-year-old Areanah Preston.