Sunday, July 10, 2011

Mayor, Police Chief, Circuit Attorney Announce IBM Smarter Cities Findings

Mayor, Police Chief, Circuit Attorney Announce IBM Smarter Cities Findings   

Released: 06-22-2011
Findings show ways to improve public safety.
Contact Information
Kara Bowlin
Press Secretary to the Mayor
Office Phone: (314) 622-3479
Mayor Francis Slay today announced that he has placed his operations director, Sam Dotson, in charge of implementing recommendations made by IBM to help better coordinate the City's law enforcement entities to reduce crime. The mayor also announced he has begun a search to hire a chief performance officer, a key recommendation in the IBM Smarter Cities Report, which the mayor made public today.
"City taxpayers spend a quarter of a billion dollars per year on law enforcement," Slay said. "We have one of the bigger police departments in the country. We have some of the most skilled and dedicated law enforcement professionals in the country. But, we will get more for our money when the different agencies work much more closely together and share more information to target dangerous, career criminals."
The City of St. Louis competed for and won an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge. It is the first of 100 cities worldwide that IBM plans to show how to use technology and data to solve specific problems. Over a three-week period earlier this year, a team of six IBM executives addressed a challenge put to them by the mayor: Determine how independent law enforcement agencies can better share information to rid neighborhoods of high-risk criminals.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

IBM Smarter Cities, Not so SMART!!
Well thats just great! Saint Louis officals are cooperating with a company that has serious issues involving violations of human rights. Maybe the following is conspirarcy theory stuff, but all i know is that this "IBM Smarter Cities" idea doesnt seem as smart as it looks at first. IBM obivouisly is involved in this project for fancial gain is not just being a good samaritn here, so why are they offering this help?

"mention sworn patent documents from IBM describing ways to secretly follow innocent people in libraries, theaters, and public restrooms through the RFID tags in their clothes and belongings?"

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Katherine_Albrecht


Are we at some point considering turning the keys to the city over to an corporation that is associated with stripping citizens of there rights(right to privacy) and was also involved with the HOLOCAUST. The people of Saint Louis need to do some serious research on this and figure out what IBM actually has to gain from this supposed "gift".


https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust



Sincerely,


a Clifton heights resident

Anonymous said...

REVISION to the above POST:

IBM Smarter Cities, Not so SMART!!

Well that’s just great! Saint Louis officials are cooperating with a company that has serious issues involving violations of human rights. Maybe the following is conspiracy theory stuff, but all i know is that this "IBM Smarter Cities" idea doesn't seem as smart as it might look at first. IBM obviously is involved in this project for financial gain is not just being a good Samaritan here, so why are they offering this help? Seems they want their technologies at the forefront of this new effort at "improved" policing through technology, but I must point out the disturbing avenues they have taken in applying their technologies in the past and the present:

"mention sworn patent documents from IBM describing ways to secretly follow innocent people in libraries, theaters, and public restrooms through the RFID tags in their clothes and belongings?"

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Katherine_Albrecht

Benjamin Franklin wrote:
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither


Are we at some point considering turning the keys to the city over to a corporation that is associated with stripping citizens of there rights(right to privacy) and was also involved with the HOLOCAUST.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust


The people of Saint Louis need to do some serious research on this and figure out what IBM actually has to gain from this supposed "gift".


Sincerely,

a city resident