Visit to Peckham and Camberwell Police Stations(Who knew that police stations could be shut 5 days a week?)
Today I visited my local police stations to try and interview some of their officers about crime in the area and the tactics that are used to try and prevent/fight it. I had no luck as it turns out you have to arrange these things in advance, which I am now in the process of doing!
I also wrote emails to Prof. Ekblom, Prof. Gamman of the Design Against Crime course at Central St. Martins to try and arrange some meetings with the experts.
Experiment ideas today:
- T-Shirt/Chest-screen broadcasting to my local community what help I need and how I'm feeling. (Can I harvest knowledge and support from the people around me?)
- Can I RFID all of my possessions so that when someone tries to remove them from my person they alert me?
- Can I link my emotional state to a device that alerts local CCTV to watch me when I'm scared, in case something happens?
- Can I produce a SmartWater-like product/liquid/device that leaves an indelible trace on an aggressor/mugger?
- Can I produce an app that sends out a distress signal to loved ones who are nearby?
- Can I produce a device that acts like a distress beacon to passers by (maybe the reverse of the Grinder app?)
- Why is the most successful borough police force in London only solving 25% of crimes?
- How can technology help us to solve more crimes?
- How can victims aid police in the identification of the people who attacked them?
- How can we make it, 'not worth the risk' for a perpetrator to commit a crime?
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