They're used at Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, inside Illinois schools and at big Chicago events like the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.NBC 5 Investigates even found one inside the Chicago Police headquarters, although CPD has refused to say how they acquired it.
A stabbing at a Buffalo, New York, school in mid-September raised more questions about how a knife could get through the scanners.But NBC 5 Investigates found Evolv was aware as far back as 2021 that its scanners could miss certain weapons. NBC 5 Investigates sent a records request to the University of Southern Mississippi but were told they would not release after releasing it to IPVM by mistake.
More than 100 school districts responded to our survey. Approximately 8 percent said they were using weapons detectors, and more than half of that 8 percent said they were using Evolv. Late last month, Evolv disclosed in another SEC filing that it had fired its CEO Peter George without cause – and separately – that some of its previously reporting sales figures were inaccurate and that"certain employees had engaged in misconduct in connection with sales that had 'extra-contractual terms and conditions' some of which were not shared with Evolv’s accounting personnel.