Lightfoot administration quietly re-upped ShotSpotter contract Johnson has vowed to cancel

ShotSpotter gunshot detection equipment at the intersection of Stony Island Avenue and East 63rd Street in Chicago. (AP file)

While Brandon Johnson was vowing on the campaign trail to end the city’s contract with ShotSpotter, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration had already quietly extended the city’s multi-million-dollar contract to use the controversial gunshot detection software.

The city’s initial three-year, $33 million contract with California-based ShotSpotter started in August 2018 and was extended for two additional years in December 2020 without public notice and long before the initial deal was slated to end.