The ‘Nightcaller’app

Presented by: Deandra Drysdale

TMTm

Overview

-the purpose of the nightcaller app would be to ultimately reduce the amount of catcalling, assault and rape related crime, and tragedy.

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• Would alert other nearby citizens to rush to the aid before involving the authorities.

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• To stop sexual assualt, rape, robbery, and police/civilian run in deaths.

How it works

-Users download the app.

-A worldwide app, so anyone anywhere can access help when they need it.

-When a user senses danger around them, they can open them open which will open up to a big button that’s labelled “I’m in danger!’

-This press of the button will then signal a loud blare to sound from the user’s device, and also the devices of those nearby, pinpoint the location where the button was pressed ,and send this location to nearby devices, so others who are in the area can rush to help the endangered.

I’M IN DANGER!

What will it do?

• Reduce the amount of cop/civilian run-in deaths.
• Reduce the amount of wrongful, unwarranted arrests.
• Stop crime and/or tragedy in its tracks, before it even occurs.

Where this can be/ could’ve been applied

Jonathan price - 2020 (2 days ago)

-Noticed a man and a woman in a physical altercation and intervened to stop it.

-Police are called.

-Upon arrival, police tased him, and shot him to death.

The story of Kenneka Jenkins - 2017

-Went to a party with her friends at a hotel in Chicago.

-She and her friends got drunk as the night went on. As they were leaving the party Kenneka realizes she left her phone in the hotel. She goes back in alone to get it.

-Kenneka goes missing, hotel staff, and police authorities are notified, however they are negligent in their search and Kenneka is only found dead, 21 hours later, in the same hotel she went missing in.

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In Conclusion

• This app can be used to help stop crime and tragedies before they happen, and prevent policing negligence.
• Allows for more accuracy when it comes to filing police reports, and for arrests; and for civilians to be able to intervene and stop crime in their own neighborhoods.
• All crimes would actually get reported, they’d be accurate, and justice would be given where it’s due

• Pew research.org says that “...Most Violent and property crimes in the U.S. go unsolved…” (Gramlich, 2017)
• A “...2012 BJS study found that a victim of a violent crime might choose not to report it to police for a variety of reasons…”
• An app like this can give victims of violent crimes like these have hope and feel like they can get justice or ultimately avoid tragedy altogether