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A Multi-Tiered Approach to Public Safety with Rikeyah Lindsay

Iron Sharpens Iron

Rikeyah is a dedicated mother of one, with a passion for youth outreach and community engagement. Rikeyah is a dedicated mother of one, with a passion for youth outreach and community engagement. Episode transcript available here: [link]. Episode transcript available here: [link].

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

It was a small pilot, but it demonstrated the ability of data to solve social problems at the community level—linking data from law enforcement, public safety, and health and human services—providing a unified view of the problem from multiple perspectives. “We started with an opioid addiction pilot project in a single town.

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A Multi-Tiered Approach to Public Safety with Rikeyah Lindsay

Iron Sharpens Iron

Rikeyah is a dedicated mother of one, with a passion for youth outreach and community engagement. Rikeyah is a dedicated mother of one, with a passion for youth outreach and community engagement.

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Achieving True Communications Interoperability Across Networks, Devices, Platforms and Applications

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

The terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 highlighted the need to improve the ability for public agencies from different jurisdictions to communicate with one another. Now today, Verizon has initiated an outreach to other companies, carriers, device makers, etc. to come together to jointly work on the issue of communications interoperability.

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Macrofortification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Seattle Times has an article, " Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle. Why are they there? ," about guerilla public safety protection measures, where people (business and residents) and placing one and two ton concrete blocks in parking spaces, to prevent large scale use by homeless RV operators.

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2021 Spotlight: The U.S. Cities with the Most Satisfied Residents

zencity

Resident sentiment around public safety is also overwhelmingly positive, with residents reacting strongly to social posts and updates from the Celina Police Department, showing how much of a positive impact outreach by the police department and the addition of a “human touch” can have to overall satisfaction in a community.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cost could be based on income, and there should be an equity and outreach program to ensure the demographics of participants reflect DC's demographics. It's the gateway to Eastern Market and Capitol Hill so verve and disorder matters (" Eastern Market Comittee Asks Council for Public Safety Improvements ," Hill Rag ).