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Despite the declining murder rate, there are less beat cops on the streets of Baltimore than ever. For the most part, they've been replaced by a cohort of city employed, formerly incarcerated men and women from the hoods of Baltimore who compose a violence intervention team called the Safe Streets Group, who have several offices around town and a 247 tip hotline where if you're from Baltimore, you can call in when you feel that a situation is escalating, but you don't want to call the cops.
Inside Baltimore's Safest Year in History
Channel 5 Patreon Cuts
As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth both display similar characteristics under that lens. That means that gaining extra capacity to understand what is going on, more clarity into the actions and functioning of the system is not likely to make your situation more comfortable in the long term; it's just going to expand how much you can accomplish while staying on that edge of understandability.
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
Ferd.ca
It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in the face of violence are qualities in short supply in our society, it’s just they’re far more likely to be found in the daily lives of women, and especially women of colour and trans women, than in the lives of the rich straight white guys dropping tens of thousands of dollars on expensive combat weaponry and deep-sea scuba watches for the hot tub and tank-like trucks that will only ever see asphalt, all props for the lifelong theatre of “defending my family”.
They/Them NATO
Huw Lemmey
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