Feds still won’t cough up any money for states to help take care of the influx. Hell, NY was reducing the NYPD budget because of the migrants.
Chicago residents are upset because their after school, weekend, and senior citizens programs have been moved or stopped because the park facilities are being used to house migrants. The poor neighborhoods seem to have the worst of it. They’ve been asking for increased services for years and now what they do have is being cut.
I see the Mayor is following through on a campaign promise to cancel the Shotspotter program in Chicago. Apparently, police being able to quickly locate gunshots is racist and unjust.Originally Posted by Tradd
Actually it doesn’t work.
We have those devices in St Louis but I don’t know their current status.
Some big tech companies made bank around a decade ago, proposing these tech solutions for crime. All kinds of tech fixes were proposed and installed: red light cameras, gunshot sound systems, video cameras.
Our city fathers were gearing up to have integrated video camera systems trained on key street corners, monitored by humans, much like they have in the UK. It never came to pass as far as I know because a new city administration and budget restraints killed it. My neighborhood was chomping at the bit to buy cameras to tie into the city’s system, and hours of meetings took place about cameras.
OMG the HOURS of human endeavor spent on talking about camera systems!!! So many generations of tech bros living in my neighborhood were all heated up about cameras cameras cameras.
I lived here long enough to experience what I count as 4 generations of crime fighting cameras:
1st gen: rich tech bros buy equipment out of their own funds to work with safety committee of my neighborhood. Constant puttering, adjustments, bulletins to the ‘nabe about porgress yet I see no practical application. Those tech bros get bored and move on to other tech bro interests.
2nd gen: safety committee of my ‘nabe thinks in a more wholistic way, wanting to engage police department in systems and services, looking for partnerships. We buy a few cameras out of neighborhood funds, endless reports at meetings about their operation. so very boring, so very ineffective. Those people move on and out of neighborhood.
3rd gen: our neighborhood safety committee talks endlessly about programs to encourage homeowners to buy their own individual cameras with some sort of pie-in-the-sky linking system, leaving the police department out of it. Those plans all talk, no execution.
4th gen: oldsters in the neighborhood express interest in having a FEW cameras trained at strategic spots in our neighborhoid with NO PLANS to tie into police department’s camera system (if it even exists) but with hopes snd dreams of somehow catching criminal activity. Endless yammering and reporting on plans. When I got on the neighborhood board the last time I pushed for funding for one of these stupid cameras to be trained on our business district. I pushed, not because I thought it would do any good, but because I was sick and tired of the latest generation of yammering. Camera purchased, endless fussing with the technology ensued. Lots and lots of fussing, but ineffective results.
TLDR: tech bros like their toys and these crime cameras provide endless hours of entertainment for them.
these are videos cameras I am talking about, but I see them as part of the same idea as gunshot recorders in “technology will solve our crime problems.” Ummmm, no.
And Nikki and Nancy are two-syllable names starting with "N."
In case you forgot the distinction Dr. Ranganath made between retrieving words/dates and Forgetting (caps are his),
this is what he wrote in the "roll out and what I remember he said on PBS recently:
If you’re over the age of 40, you’ve most likely experienced the frustration of trying to grasp that slippery word on the tip of your tongue. Colloquially, this might be described as forgetting, but most memory scientists would call this retrieval failure, meaning that the memory is there but we just can’t pull it up when we need it. On the other hand, Forgetting (with a capital F) is when a memory is seemingly lost or gone altogether. Inattentively conflating the names of the leaders of two countries would fall in the first category, whereas being unable to remember that you had ever met the president of Egypt would fall into the second.
Over the course of typical aging, we see changes in the functioning of the prefrontal cortex, a brain area that plays a starring role in many of our day-to-day memory successes and failures. These changes mean that as we get older, we tend to be more distractible and often struggle to pull up words or names we’re looking for. Remembering events takes longer, and it requires more effort, and we can’t catch errors as quickly as we used to. This translates to a lot more forgetting and a little more Forgetting.
Many of the special counsel’s observations about Mr. Biden’s memory seem to fall in the category of forgetting, meaning that they are more indicative of a problem with finding the right information from memory than Forgetting. Calling up the date that an event occurred, like the last year of Mr. Biden’s vice presidency or the year of his son’s death, is a complex measure of memory. Remembering that an event took place is different from being able to put a date on when it happened, which is more challenging with increased age. The president very likely has many memories, even though he could not immediately pull up dates in the stressful (and more immediately pressing) context of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Other “memory” issues highlighted in the media are not so much cases of forgetting as they are of difficulties in the articulation of facts and knowledge. For instance, in July 2023, Mr. Biden mistakenly stated in a speech that “we have over 100 people dead,” when he should have said, “over one million.” He has struggled with a stutter since childhood, and research suggests that managing a stutter demands prefrontal resources that would normally enable people to find the right word or at least quickly correct errors after the fact.
I quote from Dr. Ranganath "Opinion" article in the New York Times on 2.12.24
There was a bipartisan immigration bill that would have dealt with a lot of those issues. Now there isn’t because the Maga party was told that it would be better for their likely presidential candidate if they had this issue to run on rather than actually trying to fix the problem.
I want a link. I’ve been watching the news myself and haven’t heard a thing about aid to states to take care of the influx. Politicians here are still lamenting lack of $$ and there has been zilch mention of “if only the bill would get passed then we wouks get funds.”
here’s a link. $ 1.4 billion to “border communities” so who knows what the actual wording is. Chicago and New York City don’t seem very much like a “border communities” to me. California might be.
I do not know anything about this source, Cronkite news.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/...kraine-israel/
Nothing for cities not on the border.
A big part of the failed bill was funding and changes to dramatically speed up the asylum adjudication process, largely ending the ‘catch and release’ process currently in place. That would have significantly reduced the burden that border states and other cities face from undocumented immigrants.
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