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  • Rape Victim Advocates Get a Role Alongside the Police

    June 27, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Partnering police agencies and advocates for survivors of sexual assault in cities like Philadelphia and New York City has helped to solve some of the difficulties investigators have faced in cases of sexual assault while also holding investigators accountable for their attitudes and follow-through. Audits by advocates have "changed rape investigations nationwide" and provide a model for other cities.

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  • The Mundane Joys of Playing a Bus Simulator

    June 26, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Germany, Mönchengladbach

    Bus Simulator 18 is an online game that was released by a Germany company, and it helps players grapple with the challenges of operating a public bus system. Players run the bus company and need to make money while following traffic laws and helping users get from place to place. In America, where buses are not the most popular mode of transportation, the game is “an ideal look at how cities can appreciate the bus, how to love it so the system can realize its full potential.”

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  • 'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

    June 25, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Using their research skills to obtain public information, a group of librarians created an interactive map showing the location of ICE offices and juvenile detention facilities. They also created a toolkit to assist digital humanities workers to know how to respond in a crisis.

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  • Reviving the City: How an Asphalt Plant Turned Into a Public Park

    June 21, 2018 |

    Urbanet |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    By participating in the decision-making process, Mexico City residents successfully convinced the government to build a public park instead of an office development. The Parque Imán is 2.4 hectares, includes 163 trees, and the green space can potentially benefit up to 200,000 residents of some city boroughs. While there are some concerns about the soil quality in the park due to the adjacent asphalt plant, the park shows how participation from residents and transparency from the government allowed the public space to be built.

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  • Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many?

    June 19, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Doctors at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School are striving to establish new guidelines that are specific to surgical procedure and patient circumstance for prescribing opioids. The general consensus is this: every patient's needs must be assessed individually, alternatives to opiates should always be considered first, and no patients with acute pain should ever be sent home with more than a few days' worth of opiates.

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  • Positive or Negative: Rate Your Latest Police Encounter

    June 18, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    A Facebook messenger app allows people to record their interactions with police and include their own age, race and gender, location and how they felt about the incident, so that collectively these individual stories begin to build a larger overview of systemic issues with police brutality. Developed by an Army veteran whose partner was killed by police, the goal is to foster more reporting by citizens and then use that data to create more effective policies.

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  • A Single Drone Helped Mexican Police Drop Crime 10 Percent

    June 11, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ensenada

    Unmanned drones are increasingly providing valuable services in non-military situations such as rescue operations. In one city in Mexico, just one drone prompted 500 arrests and a drop in the crime rate of 10 percent, with a 30 percent drop in home burglaries. But drones also remain very controversial because of their start as weapons of war and unease over their surveillance capabilities, making careful regulations for their use essential.

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  • Latin America is fighting corruption by opening up government data

    June 11, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    Reduce corruption by making public data accessible and transparent. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, information about public works projects is available online, so excess spending is hard to hide. Meanwhile in Brazil, an observatory analyzes government expenditures and investigates suspicious transactions. Credit card expenditure fell by 25 percent after the data was published.

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  • Schools Lead the Way to Zero-Energy Buildings, and Use Them for Student Learning

    June 08, 2018 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlington, Virginia

    At Virginia's Discovery Elementary, students learn in a unique environment - one of the 89 "net-zero" schools in the country. Instructors creatively incorporate the building's data, on different energy-saving functions, into state standard lesson plans.

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  • Barcelona Finds a Way to Control Its Airbnb Market

    June 06, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Swamped by short-term vacation rentals, Barcelona pushed Airbnb to share data with government officials and help ensure that only licensed properties are listed on the site. The agreement offers a model for how other cities can respond to the same problem.

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