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Buffalo Reddit: Establishment Media Only
01/07/2025
The Buffalo "subreddit" moderators have enacted a policy of allowing only certain information sources be cited. And, they explicitly ban police scanner recordings.
The prompt for this was apparently some rabid posting recently when what was more or less characterized as a riot at the Galleria seemed to get out of hand.
I am not sure where I stand on this policy. I think my biggest beef would take more time than I have now to explain, but it goes along the lines of something like how this is an example of any local communication power being curtailed. In this case by arbitrary forum moderators of whom, for all we know, get text mandates and directives daily from local business and government masters about conversations they want removed, or encouraged. I've never really been sure how one becomes a moderator for that specific subreddit, and I am not sure the current ones are open about who they are.
But it is, or was , a potent place for people to discuss and, yes, speculate. It's people talking to people. In my opinion, people understand the frivility of the forum. The moderators who enacted this policy seem to have an exaggerated idea about how people communicating there erroneously might cause "panic" when in reality, inevitably, people do have the good sense to rely on fact at the end of the day.
Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/6/2025
- AMAN, JORDAN A
- BLAND, DENZA
- CANDELARIA, JUAN
- DOWELL, SHANAYA T
- EAGLES, DEVON
- FENTRESS, JUSTIN WILLIAM
- JERNIGAN, WILLIELEE
- MISZKO, DAVID P
- MORALES, WILFREDO
- PFAFFENBACH, DONALD
- POWELL, CASSANDRA M
- RIVERA-ROMERO, JOSE
- SUMLER, RAHEEM
- WARD, TIMOTHY
- WILLIAMS, JUWAN
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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Thanks Mitchell!
01/06/2025
You may have noticed that the BuffScan live streaming scanner feed has been up since a whopping November under the same feed URL. Just prior to that it was going offline even more than average due to various network hiccups. And, each time, coming up with a new URL after I manually restored it.
This whole thing is after all hosted on residential infrastructure and prone to power outages if I toast bread and run the microwave at the same time. And more actually, network hiccups for no strange reason.
Well halleluiah to community engagement efforts. BuffScan appreciator "Mitchell" noticed my point about "bookmarking the channel" instead of the link, to mitigate this problem, and turned me on to a simple YouTube setting that would ensure that following such interruptions, as long as the OBS server itself doesn't crash (it's on a power backup), every stream would pick up under the active URL where it left off before. I should have figured there was one.
Have you ever tried simply turning off the auto-end functionality on YouTubes Live Streaming? Or, if you're streaming from the live-now function, have you tried the event based streaming under the bottom Manage icon? This allows you to stop the stream and start it without ending the full stream and producing a new link.
It took some time to demonstrate that this works, but it does. I have had a number of network interruptions since applying the setting and users on the public side never knew. The new resilience is incredible.
There is the caveat that the livestream cannot be played back for the period of time that such an interruption actually occurs, but I have to imagine this is rare. The important thing is that BuffScan keeps on -- well, "BuffScanning".
Thanks Mitchell! I haven't had cause to edit the BuffScan notes but suffice to say I'll be changing them to reflect that fact that, yes, now people can more confidently bookmark a URL directly to the feed if they want.
Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/5/2025
- BLANCHE, KEVIN
- BYRD, JAMES
- JIMERSON, AYDEN
- KAIGLER, ARZELL
- MANGHAM, MILLER
- SCHIEDEL, TREVOR
- STRYCHALSKI, NICHOLAS A
- WILLIAMS, JAMMEAL T
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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First Pink, Now Mulligan's
01/05/2025
Public Safety Radio Audio of Mulligan's Brick Bar Fire
What royal fuck?
I woke up this morning to news that Mulligan's Brick Bar, my favorite personal place to probably drink myself into the pokey somehow someday, has burned itself to near collapse.
FireBuffNY got to the scene and was able to capture footage of this disaster and post it to its Instagram account.
The Old Pink right next door to it went up just six months before.
The Old Pink was burned down by a one John Burns who is reportedly undergoing treatment as of this report -- outside of jail. Said report says that the judge was too impressed by Burn's treatment progress to keep him behind bars and without missing a beat people have begun to wonder. A Reddit thread speculating wildly has been closed to comments accordingly.
The reality as of now? There is nothing to suggest he or any person is directly responsible for this.
As for the building itself I don't think anyone has called it yet but Mulligan's is most certainly a complete loss and it seems pretty obvious that, like the Old Pink, it's going to have to be razed. Allen Street will likely now have two blank gravel fields side by side.
Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/4/2025
- ELLISON, JORDAN
- HENDERSON, KINYATTA
- LAPLANTE, JUSTIN
- MURPHY, PAUL
- NANCE, DARRYL
- PIATEK, NICHOLAS
- TUCKER, KEVIN
- TYSON, DARYLE
- WHALEN, JONATHAN R
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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What's Brianna's Problem? Society.
01/04/2025
Camera Call Outs
Under this heading I like to call out fresh local doorbell style and other camera footage posted to social media or otherwise under highlighted discussion. As an avid advocate for home security cameras, I may even post footage from my own system.
I am making this section, amplifying awareness of this media, with the hopes of helping to solve a crime from the web's more couched media. Footage as distributed by local law enforcement is handily re-amplified by their own channels (and to be sure, I may help to convey those too), but sometimes it's these little clips that doorbell camera owners post here and there that need the extra circulation boost.
I'm starting with this one posted by an individual that ironically represents little more than a trespass at worst. It's not the "crime" that makes this video interesting, it's the problem that the poster was presumably presented with.
In the video, a woman who we might all agree is under some kind of duress, enters the porch area and crouches. The behavior is seemingly irrational but with the breadth of these type cameras now being what it is, is not uncommon either. People hopped out on drugs or what not roaming the streets and on occasion waywardly entering private property, is astonishingly routine even while somewhat alarming to the average eye.
Posted to the Ring Neighbors App on January 1.
But obviously, in seeing this, the bigger question has to be why couldn't someone just have leapt out and check more directly with the woman to see if she was in major trouble? This would probably be anyone's instinct. But there is no mention in the post, or certainly in the video of, this having happened. Why not?
Temperatures on the given timestamp date were in the low 30s, and the woman is clearly not attired well enough against that at 3 AM. Her clothes even appear torn and she seems to make reference to something being "busted". Some commentators in the original Ring Neighbors forum where this video appeared speculate she was referring to her lip or even to her ribs. Potentially pretty serious stuff.
Accuweather shows that it was as low as 34 degrees.
So what prevented the camera owner from checking into this more directly and deeper? And where now is "Brianna", the name (seemingly - it may be a bit unclear) given by the subject of the video?
We all know the answer to this of course, and it's a sad commentary on our present day society. It's simply too risky to open a door and barge out to attempt any type of rescue investigation, even if the situation had been visibly worse than it appears in this case.
Nobody, this author included, can blame the camera owner. There have been cases of people pretending to need things as a manner of baiting.
The person who posted this video made a point that they called 911 but that in their opinion resulted in 'no help'. It's not really clear to me what that disposition means since it's been my experience that the response system for this sort of thing is actually pretty quick. I recently had some bum checking my car door handle and an officer rolled up to check in with me personally about it within 10 minutes. I hadn't even asked for that but was impressed.
Without knowing what the person who posted the video expected or how they communicated during that 911 call it's a bit dubious to assume the worst about the claim.
It's just a shame that the response could not involve a more direct approach that might have yielded more information, but, times are what they are. Baiters and drug zombies can be anywhere at any time.
Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/3/2025
- APONTE ACEVEDO, JUAN
- BARNWELL, MARCUS
- BETTINGER, NORMAN
- DAVIS, AARON J
- HUTCHERSON, MARCELLUS
- KIDD, SEAN
- KNUDTSON, CASEY
- LAND, RO
- ZYMOWSKI, SAMANTHA
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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Buffalo Police Drone On
01/03/2025
WKBW did an insightful report on Buffalo Police Department's technological revolution in progress.
Drones in particular are poised to give metro law enforcement bona fide air power on par with, or, in some ways, superior to, conventional helicopters (there's an arena of actual disscusion on this comparison).
The bang for the buck in what you can do with them is in BuffScan's opinion, off the wall.
There are numerous stories about how Buffalo PD's toe-tap-in-the-water first drone helped find a vulnerable individual using infrared just hours after it being delivered to the department, but I do find WKBW's most thorough.
Here's a video immersing you into the perspective of one police department using the same technology from Axon, the same vendor for Buffalo, that sheds light on the potential for fortifying Buffalo PD -- indeed all local law enforcement -- with this affordable game changer.
Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/2/2025
- BONA, PAUL A
- BRATHWAITE, KACENE D
- CATALANO, DAVID
- CRUZ-LAFONTAINE, JONATHA
- CZUPRYNSKI, KARLY A
- FRUDDEN, JONATHEN
- GRAY, CHARRINDA Y
- JONES, JOSHUA K
- MORAN, MEGHAN
- POTTER, AARON
- ROSS, TAJIR
- THAGARD, JONATHAN P
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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Latest Erie County Jail Bookings
01/02/2025
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/1/2025
- BABCOCK, JENNIFER
- COWSEN, JOHN
- MAHNA, KARAN
- MCGRIFF, ERIC
- MORRIS, JORDAN A
- NANCE, DARRYL
- RAMADAN, MOHAMMED E
- TORRES-GOODRICH, DELIA
In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.
For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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