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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DCCF has also alerted us to a "public safety summit" tomorrow, convened by Mayor Bowser, and bringing a lot of public officials to the table, with citizens invited. DCCF has a post, " Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit ," providing lots of questions to be asked of the public officials.

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How the Norton Police Department saves time and money with AWS Public Sector Partner SOMA Global

AWS Public Sector Blog

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. To revive them, NPD made the decision to go live on the SOMA public safety platform—six months ahead of the scheduled cutover date. Lifesaving services were down.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019.

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

For the 10 former employees who had criminal justice access, the failure to deactivate also permitted continued use of the National Crime Information Center and the International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network. A similar problem was also found there in 2020.

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In a way, he did more to revive the corridor than the city or the Main Street group I helped found, as he brought buildings, capital, vendor relationships, operators, and creative concepts together in multiple locations (" Joe Englert, DC nightlife impresario, dies | Lessons about nightlife-based revitalization ," 2020). And finally, crime.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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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.