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Mike Flowers predicts future NYC mayors must burn money to rebuild silos
“The data silos thing, that's busted. So somebody's literally going to have to throw money away to reverse that. Reverse the fact that the fire department knows what the buildings department knows, what the finance department knows, et cetera. So I don't see th…”
Cities historically measured 911 response times from dispatch, not call termination
“The city of New York has never, and no other city in the United States, or, you know, some of our larger counterparts in Europe that we were able to check with, ah, everybody does not do it from that. They do it from this. The moment of dispatch to the arrival…”
NYC integrated six emergency systems to track end-to-end 911 response times
“So, what we were able to do was take these six different systems involved with nine one response, and we're talking about crime, fire medical, right, about 30 to 40,000 a day. And stitch them together. So that I now know from the moment we hang up, right, the …”
FDNY staff manually searched city websites while trucks rolled to active fires
“Every time a truck goes out to a fire what they do is they have five people basically searching city websites to find out what else the city knows about those locations.”
Mike Flowers says every major US city police department uses CompStat
“I don't know of a single police department in a large city in the United States that isn't going a ComStat model.”
Mike Flowers notes very few US cities leverage cross-agency data
“The question is, are you leveraging what another agency knows on the map of delivering your widget? And the answer to that is I think it's a very, very small number.”
New York City mortgage fraud totals roughly $400 million annually
“Mortgage fraud is about four hundred million dollars a year in the city of New York.”
Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion
“The total overall property turnover is about 1.25 trillion, right?”
NYC secured a grant to release its geo-support codebase on GitHub
“We got a grant from The eponymous learning foundation. And we're going to use that to put the geo support in the, on GitHub in the hopes that people such as yourself will go out and come up with apps that will allow us to leverage what the citizenry is doing a…”