On the rape issue, enforce the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Do it specifically by funding independent rape crisis center training and 24-hour trauma-informed crisis response and prevention services for incarcerated survivors with compulsory memoranda of understanding between the centers and the detention facilities that track the centers’ rule on confidentiality and not the detention facilities.
That’s a political lift, but moves the needle by enforcing existing law, aligning existing stakeholders, reasonable funding and targeted emphasis on otherwise disputed confidentiality rules.
And, in general, stop trusting professional public service work to private equity and speculators.
Deep social problems do not get “solved”. If the next generation is lucky, they get traded in for newer, more interesting, less existentially threatening problems. I think that’s a better goal, actually.
8. Find a way to sweep icky poor loser people under the rug.
Using public records laws, the Guardian obtained dozens of emails and documents submitted to Challenge cities by Sidewalk Labs, detailing many technologies and proposals that have not previously been made public.
Some will be controversial, including spending transport subsidies for low-income residents on ride-sharing services such as Uber, requiring cities to upgrade to Sidewalk’s mobile payments system, and modernizing public parking to boost city revenues.
