About a week ago I published a post cautiously praising the work of Boulder, Colorado based SafeArx, the company behind a smartphone app called Cell 411 claiming to cut down on the need for police: Let me be clear that I love the idea of a decentralized emergency alerting response platform. I think it’s incredibly …
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Cell 411, the “de-centralized” smartphone app that “cops hate” is neither de-centralized nor hated by cops
If you’re following anti-police brutality activists, you might have heard about a new smartphone app that aims to cut down on the need for police. Cell 411 is touted as “the decentralized emergency alerting and response platform” that “cops don’t want you to use.” There’s only one problem: its central marketing claims aren’t true. Cell …
Buoy (the first?) anti-policing community-based crisis response system, now available in Spanish
Buoy, (the first?) anti-policing community-based crisis response system, is now available in Spanish. This is a really, really big deal, because communities of Spanish-speaking residents in the United Snakes of Amerikkka are some of the most oppressively policed communities in this so-called “great†country. These are sometimes families of immigrants, with members who may be …
A Sneak Peek at Better Angels’ Buoy: the private, enhanced 9-1-1 for your personal community
As some of you already know, over the past several months, I’ve been working with a team of collaborators spanning four States and several issue areas ranging from alternative mental health/medical response, to domestic violence survivor support, to police and prison abolitionists. Although we don’t all share the exact same politics, we’ve come together as …