The City Council again rebuked Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to rid Chicago of ShotSpotter Wednesday, voting to keep the gunshot detection technology around just days before it was set to go offline. Aldermen passed in a 33-to-14 vote an ordinance supporters say would compel police Superintendent Larry Snelling to reach a contract to continue using the tool.

"The mayor referenced the veto because the thing that passed is in violation of the Separation of Powers Act," Chicago Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry said at the same press conference. "The legislative branch cannot compel the executive branch to act, hence the item is a vetoable item and the mayor is going to exercise that privilege."

The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday extended a contract for ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology, amid debate over whether or not it makes the city safer. It’s a smaller expansion than law enforcement requested;