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City Lab
“Slow the hell down.” That’s the message New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio delivered on Twitter as he announced the revival of the city’s speed camera program. The cameras went live in July with expanded hours, issuing hefty tickets to any driver who creeps above 36 miles per hour — that’s 11 mph above the city’s 25 mph posted limit — in 750 school zones throughout the city’s five boroughs.
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Government Technology
Ransomware is increasingly being aimed at school districts across the country. In July alone, the cyberattacks affected systems in New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, Connecticut and New York. But these attacks have occurred throughout the year and show no signs of slowing, striking anywhere hackers can find an open door or window.
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Inside Sources
While visiting his family during winter break, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier was shot and killed by Chicago police as law enforcement responded to a 911 call from Quintonio’s father reporting that his son was threatening him. Quintonio was attending Northern Illinois University and studying electrical engineering. Reports say that the college student had been emotionally disturbed in recent months. A lawsuit filed by the LeGrier family against the shooting officer states that police failed to give Quintonio medical care.
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NPR
On the presidential campaign trail in Iowa and on the op-ed page of The New York Times, former Vice President Joe Biden has made the case for going back to a nationwide ban on assault weapons and making it "even stronger." Some have reacted with quizzical expressions: "Back?" "Stronger?" Yes. 25 years ago, when Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban.
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The Brookings Register
When purchasing a house, location can make all the difference. Knowing exactly where houses are located becomes even more important when a wildfire is burning. “Precise home locations are very important when sending out warnings and evacuating residents,” said Dapeng Li, an assistant professor of geographic information science in the Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at South Dakota State University. He uses computer modeling and maps to help emergency managers make decisions about when they need to evacuate residents during a wildfire.
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Governing
The Great Blizzard of 1888 dumped more than 20 inches of snow on New York City, blowing down the thick web of power lines that were strung overhead. The city was plunged into darkness, and communications were disrupted for days while the dangerous live wires lay in the snow. The outage resulted in a city regulation to bury all cables in New York, a measure that was soon adopted in many other big cities.
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Route Fifty
26 lawmakers in California were incorrectly matched with mugshots in a recent test of Amazon’s facial recognition software conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. The ACLU ran photos of all 120 members of the California State Legislature through Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition software, which matched roughly 20% of them to mugshots in a separate database. Assembly member Phil Ting, one of the lawmakers falsely identified as a criminal, said at a recent press conference that the experiment illustrates the limitations of the technology, which particularly struggles to correctly identify people of color — especially women.
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Government Executive
As director of the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, John Green regularly talks to people about how they can use data to help their communities thrive.
The decennial census is particularly important – and the next one is less than a year away.
People living in rural and small town America in particular have much at stake in the 2020 census. Unfortunately, census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.
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Governing
An ambulance’s wailing sirens, a fire truck’s flashing lights: These are a constant feature of urban life, as ubiquitous as a Starbucks on every corner or a traffic jam at 5 p.m. But nearly a third of the times an ambulance or a fire truck speeds by to answer a 911 call, there is no actual emergency. The number of 911 callers who don’t need to go to a hospital emergency department sits at around 30%, according to Kevin McGinnis of the National Association of State EMS Officials.
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