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Chicago safe THEORY
so peaceful...
Photo:: Aryeh Goldsmith
AND NOW the violence is
cITYWIDE
looking back, chicago has seen
six decades
of
wartime levels
of violence since the 1960's
HUNDREDS OF billions spent
enormous efforts merely to reduce it
but no lasting reduction
and no end in sight
GANGS
DRUGS
youth
guns
police
today chicago grieves
and pleads for solutions
but what chicago gets is more
fact is, most chicagoans are inured to violence
most of uS accept wartime levels of violence as
permanent
unalterable
unsolvable
even NATURAL facts of chicago life
"it's just a chicago thing..."
like brutal chicago winters
so where can chicago go from here?
for decades savvy chicagoans have been saying,
"they could stop it if they wanted to"
But who are they?
in the industrial age
they were chicago's leaders
in the digital age
They are we.
all of us!
so how can all chicagoans
solve chicago's violence?
belatedly - four decades into the digital age . . .
CHICAGO can exit the
industrial age and enter the
DIGITAL AGE
in the field of public safety.
public
communications
system
TO connect its police,
pUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS,
citizens and leaders
to make chicago
BUT with all respect,
violence reduction is
not THE solution.
it's BEEN part of the problem
because since the 1960's: a
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
holdover from
chicago's bygone
industrial-age
it has not only failed
(DISASTROUSLY)
to reduce violence,
it has backfired.
it's made CHICAGO
more violent.
and IT KEEPS CHICAGO
VIOLENT IN THREE WAYS
so HERE'S a digital-age public safety strategy for chicago
call it
chicago safe
it expands the concept of public safety
to include all of chicago's digital-age
public safety resources. . .
because in the digital-age,
publiC safety IS inherently a
undertaking AND RESPONSIBILITY.
in the digital age, three
groups share responsibility
for public safety:
1. public safety
(police) (traditional)
2. public health
(medicine and sociology)
3. public communication
(city hall, media and the public)
citywidE
CHICAGO's TRADITIONAL public safety (POLICE)
and public health components are in PLACE
chicago's digital-age
public communication
component CAN WORK LIKE THIS
in 20 secondS:
SPELLED OUT:
use interactive media
to give voice to the voiceless
to connect chicagoans and city hall
when chicago does this...
CHICAGO works
chicago makes itself safe
well ... sounds nice ...
but how to launch it?
there are TONS
OF ways. this one
STARTS WITH just
two chairs
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