with ongoing prime-time public forums
that inform, inspire and mobilize
ALL CHICAGOANS
~ CITIZENS, POLICE, CITY HALL ~
to make Digital Age Chicago
safe
DIGITAL AGE SAFETY
begins with the
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
to which most Chicagoans
still turn for their local
news, sports and weather:
TV news has always reported on violence. PROFITABLY so. Now, in addition, TV news can air PROFITABLE programming that
CONNECTS
CITIZENS AND CITY HALL
SO THEY CAN
MAKE CHICAGO SAFE
AND HERE'S WHY
TRUST AND TEAMWORK
AMONG ALL CHICAGOANS ARE
INDISPENSABLE
TO CHICAGO'S
DIGITAL AGE PUBLIC SAFETY:
It's becuase in the Digital Age,
OWNERSHIP of the DIGITAL DEVICES
that make Chicago either
SAFE or VIOLENT is
CITYWIDE
For this reason, Chicago will
REMAIN VIOLENT
until it is addressing its
violence as a connected
DIGITAL AGE COMMUNITY.
SO welcome!
THIS SITE is all about getting past outmoded INDUSTRIAL AGE, VIOLENCE REDUCTION strategies and implementing trustworthy DIGITAL AGE strategies ways that MAKE CHICAGO SAFE.
Four digital age premises govern it. For us, they are axiomatic:
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Digital age problems require digital age solutions
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Digital age public safety requires broad public (citizen) participation
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Digital age safety requires citywide TRUST and TEAMWORK
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Digital age media can profit handsomely using their resources to help keep Chicago SAFE.
The site shows how Industrial Age, ADULT centered ways of addressing crime are not only unworkable but counterproductive in addressing Digital Age gang/drug/gun/ YOUTH violence. They backfire. They make Chicago violent.
Once Chicago gets past Violence Reduction, it will realize that the media of its digital age public communications system (especially the city's network TV stations) could ALL ALONG have connected Chicagoans - citizens of all ages, police, City Hall - to MAKE CHICAGO SAFE.
Four decades into the Digital Age, Chicago's challenge today is to exit the Industrial Age and (belatedly) enter the Digital Age in the field of public safety. To see Chicago's steps and missteps in its halting evolution towards effective digital age public safety policies, check out our
graphic history
of the Last 100 Years of
Public Safety in Chicago
Looking at the past, present and best future
of public safety in Chicago, it shows the industrial age TREES
that have made digital age Chicago violent AND the FOREST of
digital age resources needed to make digital age Chicago SAFE .
PAST
1909
DANIEL BURNHAM
ROLE MODEL
Chicago's Industrial-Age City Planner Helps Digital-age Chicago Make Itself SAFE
BURNHAM INSISTED in his 1909 Plan of Chicago that "GOOD CITIZENSHIP is the prime object of good city planning." Today Chicago urgently needs a DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE to do for the city what Burnham's PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE has always done: help create a world-class city of citizens who love Sweet Home Chicago. And with digital citizenship comes responsibiity for PUBLIC SAFETY.
PRESENT
2022
CHICAGO SAFE THEORY
How Chicago's Digital-Age Communications Resources Can Help Make Chicago SAFE
Chicago can replace its failed, top-down struggle to merely REDUCE its violence with a top-down, bottom-up, media-based strategy to make itself SAFE. TRUSTWORTHY media programs and content can bring out the BEST in Chicago, not the WORST, as has been happening for decades at City Hall, among Chicagoans and in the media of Chicago's digital-age public communications system.
FUTURE
2023
CHICAGO SAFE
PRACTICE
TWO CHAIRS
For Two Feuding City Leaders to Start Making Chicago SAFE
CHICAGO SAFE can launch with TWO CHAIRS, a three- minute TV news feature guaranteed to surprise and amaze. It gets feuding Chicago leaders work- ing together, with citizen input, to make Chicago SAFE. TWO CHAIRS also launches Chicago's DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, which in time will be as meaningful and unifying to Chicagoans as the telecasts of the city's beloved pro sport teams.