Relevant current events

Wiki ▸ Relevant current events

Use this page to link to current events that illustrate a need for, or potential benefit from, the existence of Buoy.

• http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-says-hackers-are-targeting-emergency-services
• http://www.wired.com/2016/04/humanitarian-aid-startups/
• http://www.salon.com/2014/11/20/kentucky_fire_chief_refuses_to_help_black_family_after_traffic_accident_we_aint_taking_no_n_gers_here/

These could include situations in which real peoples' interactions with state-based support services had a negative (unexpected, undesired, excessive, tragic, etc.) outcome. Real world scenarios in which a better outcome might've been possible if the person in crisis had access to a tool like Buoy.

• http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/mom-calls-911-for-mental-help-with-her-son-cops-show-up-taser-him-to-death-while-hes-restrained.html
• http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-police-kill-quintonio-legrier-bettie-jones-families-outraged/
• http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/quintonio-legrier-chicago-police-shooting-mental-health/Content?oid=20671894
• http://6abc.com/news/911-call-goes-unanswered-as-dispatcher-orders-pizza/1164029/
• http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/08/man-runs-to-police-for-help-instead/
• http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150511/PC16/150519878
• http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-asperger-shot-dead-police-article-1.2520902
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Meagan_Hockaday
• http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/01/tanisha_anderson_was_restraine.html
• http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco
• http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Miami-Beach-Cops-in-Gay-Bash-Flap-83466052.html
• http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/man-shot-multiple-times-after-state-troopers-sent-to-wrong-house-for-911-hang-up-call/
• http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-black-man-shot-cops-calling-report-robbery-article
• http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matter/cops-shoot-disabled-man/
• https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/23/headlines/texas_officer_assaults_arrests_family_who_called_911_for_help
• http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40627847

These could also include situations in which communities come together to support each other successfully in crisis without the help of the state. (Recent natural disasters? What might Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy have been like if people had had a tool like Buoy?)

Against privatization:

• http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/3/when_you_dial_911_and_wall

See also: Promotional campaigns - "Buoy: Call a Friend, Not the Cops"