The system has developed somewhat of a polarizing reputation. Some critics have raised privacy and “Big Brother” concerns; others question whether the technology creates false alarms that police waste time addressing. The Broward Sheriff’s Office previously ended a pilot program due to questions about cost, accuracy and efficacy — it didn’t help crack cases. Miami’s own data showed that only about one in four ShotSpotter alerts resulted in a documented crime scene after one year, findings that aren’t atypical.
Let’s put it this way: a 75% failure rate of its intended job. The article shows the results of three of the most crime-ridden areas of the City of Miami: Liberty City, Little Haiti and Overtown. If you are familiar with the TV Show “The First 48” these names should be familiar.
But let’s waste money on electronic magical thinking rather than tackle the real socioeconomic problems of this areas.
The author holding an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for Hillary sign.
Back in Tallahassee, I stood with former Mayor John Marks when he signed on as a mayor against illegal guns that evolved into Moms Demand Action. My Democratic friend Roy Blondeau and I are hoping that our city and county commissioners will take a common sense approach to ending gun violence.
But, was not Moms Demand Action a “grassroots” organization that came out from a Stay-At-Home mom named Shannon Watts? I mean we were always told it had noting to do with Billionare Michael Bloomberg until they got together much after and he was moved by the holy work of these poor moms.
The problem with lying is that somebody will eventually let the truth escape.
With 100% agreement between reviewers, only 9 of the analyzed 125 fatalities (excluding the 14 without detailed autopsy data) were found to be potentially survivable, yielding a potentially survivable wound rate of 7% (Table 2). There was near-equal distribution between shotgun and handgun wounds in this group and no wounds caused by high-velocity rifles. The most common potentially survivable injury was a gunshot/shotgun to the chest (89%), with autopsy reports showing no significant vascular or cardiac injury and only small hemothorax.
Does this mean external hemorrhage control for civilians is unimportant? Emphatically no! Tourniquets and simple hemorrhage control measures most definitely have a role in improving survival but should no longer be a myopic focus of first responder and public.
Basically, tourniquets are good, chest seals are gooder.
What you should train for:
Per TECC, in addition to immediate patient access and external hemorrhage control (direct pressure, tourniquets, and hemostatic agents), immediate medical care in the wake of a CPMS must include strategies to prevent further injury to the wounded, simple airway management, recognition and management of declining respiratory function as a result of penetrating trauma to the chest, proper positioning of the casualty, efficient movement of the casualty, and prevention of hypothermia.
The old ABC (Airway, Breathing and Circulation) is still valid. I saw not too long ago some article discrediting “The Golden Hour” and basically any emergency training in civilian shootings because the easier and faster access to emergency medical care in the cities. I found that not only stupid but dangerous because your particular FD may have in average a fast response time, it does not mean that will be the response time on the incident you are involved. Murphy Lives.
And what I like a lot about this report is their acknowledgement of limited data access and needing to go deeper. And the conclusion is proof once again that what is done in the military does not necessarily translate to civilian life
We found that the overall wounding pattern and the fatal wounding pattern following civilian active shooter events differ from combat injuries. There were no deaths from exsanguinating extremity wounds. As such, we discourage the current myopic focus on hemorrhage control for civilians. Instead, we urge that the tenets of civilian-based TECC be implemented across the entire prehospital trauma spectrum, and we further recommend studying this strategy to affirm its benefit.
But still: Military First Aid training beats no training at all!
President Obama has taken to the bully pulpit and making it clear that America and American law enforcement in particular is still steeped in racism.
“I know that Americans are struggling right now with what we’ve witnessed over the past week. First, the shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, the protests. Then the targeting of police by the shooter here, an act not just of demented violence, but of racial hatred.”
The media has gone all in on trashing white people for the state of the nation. The Huffington Post was disappointed that Obama did not use harsher language to condemn white people. Salon has decreed that white people are fragile cowards for not wanting show complete deference to people who want to beat whites over the head with the accusation of racism. Mic published a completely irresponsible and erroneous article titled 23 Everyday Actions Punishable by Death if You’re Black in America which has been turned into a celebrity PSA. Then the media wonders why race relations are getting worse.
Last year and into the beginning of this year, we saw protests across the country on college campuses driven by sensationalized rhetoric about race, micro-agressions, and hate crime hoaxes. These protests have done real damage. Deans and college presidents have stepped down or lost jobs. Enrollment is down and schools are facing budget shortfalls because of it.
The language of racial animus is getting worse. During a debate competition at Harvard, two students aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement openly advocated for white genocide.
Elite elementary schools in New York have begun to reintroduce segregation into the classroom, with different classes specific to different races of students. Black Lives Matter tried to reintroduce segregation into the Nashville Public Library system, and protested when they were stopped from doing that.
Elements of Social Justice have perverted the English language by pushing the idea the racism is not hatred due to race, but that “racism = power + prejudiced.” Essentially, this says that a person can’t be “racist” regardless of their beliefs, if they are underprivileged, i.e. minorities can’t be racist. This twisting of logic and human decency was legitimized on CNN when this position was taken in defense of Black Lives Matter by activist Marc Lamont Hill and nobody challenged him on it.
I am not going to say that race relations are peachy-keen, or that there is no racism in America anymore. Of course there is. Have there been bad shoots by police in which black men have been the victim. Yes.
However, what we are seeing is not a movement to address these individual acts, but a deliberate and aggressive move to exacerbate rate relations.
This is the “white fragility” that the SocJus media lives to push. It is simply white people not wanting to get blamed for age old racism they took no part in and the desire not to be cornered and mau-maued for it. It is not fragility to want to avoid an unwinnable argument. Yet even calling it “white fragility” is a tool to imply that white people are weak.
And because of one sided nature of this argument in the modern political climate – where in whites are racist for even defending themselves from being called racist – the Left can claim all the way from academia to click-bait that America is no better today then when Jim Crow, or even slavery, was a reality. This is both intellectually and morally dishonest.
The Far Left has used identity politics to fill its ranks. Big Government has always been able to generate support for whatever evil machinations is has by telling one group another group is to blame for their problems and should be punished:
The German people would be wealthier but for the Jews and Communists. The Russian people would be better off but for the Jews, Ukrainians, and Czarists. The Italian Trains would run on time if Italy didn’t have Slovenes.
Of course none of that was accurate, but it really doesn’t matter. The point was to use ethnic differences – identity politics – to drive people to support the powers that be.
The modern American Democrat party has used this tactic ingeniously with the target of ridicule being Republicans/Conservatives. But recently this train has gone off the tracks. The fire of inter-group hatred that the left has stoked has reached California-in-drought-conditions-wildfire levels. They have created a beast they cannot feed.
Now that the DNC has ordained that Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic Candidate for President, the black community that the DNC relies upon as a voting block has come out against Hilary.
Now the DNC is preaching unity, but the people aren’t buying it. They have divided and identity politiced themselves into a position they can’t get out of.
Had only they listened to the great President Theodore Roosevelt, when in a speech to the Knights of Columbus in New York on Oct. 12, 1915, he said:
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.“
The blue ribbons were to celebrate the memory of the police officers fallen on the line of duty by members of the “progressive” movement. The young fella appears to have taken umbrage to that.
Elections have consequences. he might be appointed the Neighborhood Commissar in the future.
“You can’t control every single person and know how they’re going to deal with things and know if they’re going to pick up a weapon — you don’t know that, but what we can control is who we give the f—ing weapons to.” Which on principle I agree with. But I have the feeling that she isn’t referring to gang members or Mexican cartels or those who swear allegiance to ISIS, but everyday law abiding citizens like us.
But as I was searching for DNC hashtags, I came across a tweet so mind-blowningly insane I made everything else pale into comparison.
She is supporting the party that threw American citizens into internment camps, with some platitude about love!?!
I can’t wrap my mind around that. My great grandparents met while escaping from the pogroms of Russia, so Hooray for the Czar…?
I would think that a professor of sociology and the military would have some idea about what big governments have done to their people throughout history (*hint* some group ALWAYS ends up getting oppressed/genocided) and would take umbrage with big government. Nope. She learned her history and totally joined the dark side.
Being a Social Justice Warrior, of course logic means nothing to her. Her Twitter background is of this sign:
One would think that someone who has a problem with “legacy of violence” of white people would know about the Democrat party’s history of supporting slavery, or the KKK, or voting against the Civil Rights Act, or Japanese Interment. But somehow I think she thinks of racial violence as a Republican thing.
I’d try and argue this point further, but my head is still swimming from the idea of a person justifying Japanese Interment because *wedding bells*.
