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Technology (Bluetooth beacons/app) is being developed to help stop some of these tragedies: https://thevitalsapp.com/ https://thevitalsapp.com/ "The Vitals™ a
by 1001101 8y ago
Technology (Bluetooth beacons/app) is being developed to help stop some of these tragedies:
https://thevitalsapp.com/ https://thevitalsapp.com/
"The Vitals™ app enables safer community interactions by allowing individuals with visible and invisible conditions and disabilities to create and share a personalized digital profile with authorized first responders via a secure, mobile app – improving real-time communication, reducing the risk of misunderstandings, and promoting greater independence."
A number of cities are piloting this.
- chris_mc 8y agoNo, I shouldn't have to share more information to be treated like a human, the cops should be better trained.
- majewsky 8y agoNo matter how much training they receive, policemen are not going to be about to make psychological diagnoses in the heat of the moment. They need to know upfront that the person in question has schizophrenia so that they can apply appropriate behavior. (And that's the part of the training that needs improving, then.)
- chris_mc 8y agoThen maybe they shouldn't shoot first and ask questions later.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI'm sure there's no way this could be misused. Perhaps training the police to not shoot people on sight might be a better solution?
- DanBC 8y agoIn the linked article the police knew he was unarmed, and I'll, and had been told by neighbours that he was not violent, and they saw that he was not violent, but despite that the police helped him so hard he died.
- 08-15 8y agoNext stage: "We couldn't possibly know he was not dangerous, so we shot him just in case. He really should have registered with The Vitals™". Brilliant idea, really.
- fucking_tragedy 8y agoThe article cites several cases in which the officers involved were made aware of their victim's disabilities, but they continued to kill them anyway.