3 hours agoBrazilians escape the lead app, first check where there's shootings, then come out of the house (Video)
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The red video on the map means shooting, so through this signal I try to avoid that area”, says Leonardo Duarte, who works on the ground for the rehabilitation clinic in Rio de Janeiro. Shooting and violence are common in the Vigario Zeral area, the poor area where narcotics and gangs dominate. To avoid [...]
Shooting and violence are common in the Vigario Zeral area, the poor area where narcotics and gangs dominate. To avoid danger, the Hands have a strategy: “Never go out without checking the phone data that shows the areas where there's crime”, it transmits Telegrafi. The number of Rio residents is increasing day by day as well as taxpayers of various websites such as Basta de Violet and Realidade do Rio de Janeiro, which convey criminal activities that occur in certain areas.
These two real - time sources provide information on all violent activities. Hands say he updates news and distributes it to groups in case it comes to a fight.
“
You get the cards from the “Onde Tem Tiroteo mobile device” ( OTT, or there's a shooting, sending out a signal warning of criminal activity in Rio de Janeiro.
One of the founders of the Denis Cole app, has declared that he and his friends update the app that daily warns millions of residents between 80 and 100 times, of criminal activities taking place in certain areas.
So they share this information via Facebook, Titter, Instagram, Whatsapp and Telegram. OTT avoids official security information. So instead it is based on the number of shots and analyzes anonymous reports distributed by two thousand people in whatsapp that OTT considers trustworthy.
The four founders of the app had been victims of brutal attacks before they self-funded the project that helps save thousands of lives a day. By 2015, Cole had been pointed at his gun, forcing him to stop the car he was stolen for drug smuggling. Two years after he launched the app, he admits he's even more afraid, but added that app data helps him avoid trouble areas. A similar app is Fogo Kruzado, founded by Amnesty International.
Until Jaira da Conceicao looks at the smart phone, there's a sound of recordings that alerts and photos on the Whatsapp appear. She hates to see the lifeless bodies of gang members, but she says it is difficult to avoid.
When months ago war broke out between narco-bands in a park near her house, where she set fire to four buses, she witnessed this terrible event that broadcast live on Facebook.
