Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Sept. 18, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The mayor said he plans to veto the City Council’s latest attempt to retain the acoustic gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter — an ordinance approved Wednesday. 

“Clearly, the legal dynamic of this ordinance has left me of no choice but to veto it,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said during a news conference after the vote. "But I am committed to making sure that we are coming up with a collaborative approach to find systems that will actually work."