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BuffScan Pokey Listing for 1/13/25
01/13/2025
Note that this listing includes the entry for Dorian Jones, the man arrested in connection with the robbery and off-duty involved officer shooting last Friday.
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The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/12/2025
- BRADY, TIMOTHY
- CHRISTOPHER, PETER P
- SKIPPERPERRY, RICKY
- VANDUYNE, ERROL
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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BuffScan Pokey Listing for 1/12/25
01/12/2025
Note that this listing includes the entry for Dorian Jones, the man arrested in connection with the robbery and off-duty involved officer shooting last Friday.
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/11/2025
- CHESTNUT, LOUIS
- FIELDS, TOMMY
- JONES, DORIAN D [ ROBBERY ]
- JORDAN, DAMON D
- KOSOWSKI, CHRISTOPHER
- LAW, RICKY D
- LONG, MARCELINO
- RINGLER, MARK J
- SILVERIO, ANA
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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Still Not a Bazillionaire
01/11/2025
Dorian Jones allegedly tried to make off with a Mercedes Friday night according to local news reports, using what was taken as an authentic gun at the moment. It didn't go as planned as he wound up shot by an off duty cop (reportedly not a Brazilian one, mind you) on Delaware Avenue.
The car he appears to have allegedly and initially gotten off with still had the owner's 13-year-old kid in it, if I'm interpreting the various reports correctly.
The off duty cop, also possibly the owner (ambiguity again owing to the wording of various reports) of the vehicle and child's father, let off a round from his firearm and struck Dorian, who was tracked to a nearby location with a bullet wound and subsequently taken to the hospital.
The allegedly kidnapped kid involved in all of this was okay.
This morning Dorian had court with the judge who seems to have imposed an $80,000 bail which he must not have been able to secure yet because tomorrow's BuffScan Pokey Report will show him as an inmate. Although not included earlier this morning, a refresh of the Erie County jail roster now, lists him.
So, from the scene of the crime, to the hospital, to court, to jail. All within what feels like 15 hours maybe.
At just 19, if everything given here is true, Dorian is really counting on a rich life stealing cars. New York's online court system shows that he was previously arrested for "unauthorized use of a vehicle" (cough -- clever wording preferred by legislators to avoid the phrase "stole a vehicle" for some reason) twice before Friday's escalation with gun theater.
Yes, twice.
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/10/2025
- CARR-JONES, TARELL
- COOK, BENATHAN
- CORTES, SALVATORE C
- DUNSTON, KABIR M
- FERGUSON, DEMETRIUS
- GOINS, LARRY S
- HARPER, HORACE
- HARRIS, DERRICK
- HOLLOWAY, AARON M
- JOHNSON, KATELYNN
- POSTOLOWSKI, BRYAN
- SOTOMAYOR, FRANCHESKA
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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Wham Bam! Police Take Custody
01/10/2025
BuffScan's sophisticated array of property security cameras caught this dramatic custody action apparently involving Buffalo Police, the Erie County Sheriff's Office, and possibly others. It happened yesterday at exactly 2:30 PM.
The video begins with the quiet street being immediately flooded with police who in blitzkrieg efficiency barrel in with a convoy of vehicles, leaping out, and seemingly breaking down the door of the house at frame upper left. Eventually an individual can be seen strutted away in cuffs from the house and packed into a waiting Erie County Sheriff vehicle.
It seems dramatic to an average person like myself, but, this procedure is probably a routine way of collecting outstanding warrant bearers and other wanted individuals. A fascinating watch typically limited to TV shows and movies.
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/9/2025
- ADDISON, HERBERT L
- BAUGH, ADRIAN
- BOYDHALSEY, NARRSSON R
- BROWN, MONTRAY
- CHENEY, CORINNE
- CLEMENT, BRITTNIE
- COOK, DARREL D
- DELMORAL-SANTIAGO, ERIC
- DROZDOWSKI, ASHLEY L
- FULLER, SHAWN
- GANDOLFO, GIOVANNI T
- GARRETT, MICHELLE
- GONZALEZ, DANIEL
- GONZALEZ, VICTOR
- HERRERA, CHRISTOPHER MICH
- MARRERO, CHRISTOPHER A
- NANCE, COLLIN MCCLAIN
- RUDES, JOHN
- STERLING, ANGELENA
- STRASSEL, GEORGE J
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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BuffScan Pokey Listing for 1/8/25
01/09/2025
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/8/2025
- ARNAU, PABLO
- BIDELL, SHARON K
- CIVILETTO, KATIE
- CROOME, THOMAS
- FOX, RICHARD
- LAWSON, JOHNATHAN J
- LESNIAK, MADELINE R
- LONGWITH, GABRIEL M
- MASTERSON, AARON
- NEVINS, DERRICK M
- NICOMETI, MARC
- RAMIREZ, NANCY
- ROSARIO-CRUZ, JOSEPH
- SANTIAGO, SAMUEL M
- STEWART, TASHEEN
- THAGARD, AKEYIA E
- WISEMAN, ERIC
- WOZNIAK, LINDSEY
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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Jail Roster is Now the BuffScan Pokey Report
01/08/2025
Just because I like the linguistic play of it, the daily Erie County jail rosters I've been posting will now be called the "BuffScan Pokey Report".
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/7/2025
- ALFONSO, ANTHONY G
- BOGLE, CHRISTIAN J
- BRANT, MEGAN L
- CARPINO, MARK
- CHAMBERS, FRANKLIN
- CRISSELL, ZACKERY
- DAVIS, FREDRICK
- DEMOSTHENE, JACKEY
- GULLEDGE, DONTAY
- HARRISON, MOSES
- JACKSON, PERNELL M
- KAMPREY, JENNIFER
- KEHR, RONALD
- KEMNITZER, COLLEEN M
- KOSOWSKI, CHRISTOPHER
- KRAUSE, CHRISTOPHER M
- LIVERPOOL, MICHAEL
- LUPER, LIONEL
- RAMADAN, MOHAMMED E
- SMITH, MATTHEW
- THOK, JEREMIAH
- THOMPSON, HASHEEN
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 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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Just Six 6.5 Hours
01/01/2025
Six and a half hours is about all the time it took for a shot bullet to end the first life of the year in Buffalo 2025. Both WGRZ and WIVB have reported on the unidentified victim's untimely demise.
Details are pretty scant right now but more should obviously come out later.
Crime data for Buffalo 2024 probably won't be processed and posted at the city's CitiStat website for awhile, but a sole shooting this quick into the game probably doesn't portend anything out of control. Things, on trend, have been going well for Buffalo with only 38 in 2023 which is part of a below average count since 2022 which by the way saw 70 homicides.
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The 311 Website
12/27/2024
Among the digital services offered by the city, one of the most underrated has to be Buffalo's 311 website. The website allows people to formally lodge all sorts of complaints and quality of life issues, and even allows for an open public review of those requests (which is handy to prevent duplicate requests I'm guessing), without having to use a phone.
Use of the system results in a Request ID which can be used to track resolution of a given complaint.
Word in social media channels is that the system is surprisingly effective.
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BuffScan NYC People Fusion Engine
12/22/2024
The BuffScan Instance of the New York City People Fusion is live. Create your account here.
Okay, so -- I've been busy for the past decade developing the "New York City People Fusion". It's an anonymous communication exchange platform by design that is meant to sit in an open computer browser tab on a PC device. The realities of digital demographics today are that anyone who reads this and tries it will nonetheless attempt to do so from their smartphone. Go ahead, but it's not going to be pretty.
Yes I wrote "decade". I wrote it while living in, ha, New York City, then let it rot. Never pushed it, never actually completed development to the extent that I have in the past few months.
Only now when I feel that principles of the communication style inherent to the original web and internet need to be restored and promoted by someone, christ, even if that is me, did I take to going back to it and almost re-writing it from scratch.
The BuffScan project, the effort to replace police scanning with something else, benefits as the first real-world iteration of the re-write. Within it is the starry-eyed vision that the parameters of the effort, not to mention the behind-the-scenes discussion of digital content collection and distribution related to public safety, come to life.
Couple of things you will find refreshingly odd about it.
First, you will notice no graphics except photos posted in the topic areas by users like you. Graphics inhibit the service and its development. Early BBSes relied on only ASCII for graphics, and this why so many people were able to start and support them. You might find it jarring at first, but you'll come to appreciate it, quick.
Second, it's for the computer, not your smartphone. This is why I saw BuffScan as such an ideal vehicle for its development iteration (which it is). People into police scanners, dramatic digital collection and distribution, are, by my measure, exactly the same type of people that have desktop PCs or laptops still part of their ensemble. An open session of BuffScan NYCPF is meant to live open in a browser tab on your PC, right next to your radio equipment or on the same PC you're processing videos. Yes, you can try to use it through a smartphone - maybe to quickly review a curiosity or create an account, but, it's not designed for that and results will vary. Desktop PC culture (which I label the "Console Culture") is real and will only get more significant in time.
It's also not a monetization effort. Everything exists to provide service and utility. There are no ads and nothing in the background slowing things down by way of telemetry. I am trying to develop a cause, not make the bucks.
Finally, you will notice that it is a communication that allows front-facing anonymity and tags. Technically, unless I intervene directly, there's nothing to stop this from turning into a weird dating site where people can still do "MFF" or "FFM" type searches. But, that's exactly it. The NYC People Fusion engine does allow a sole admin -- the "SysOp" (anyone remember that title - if you do, sounds like I just jostled a new member) to closely police the site and therefore, allow said anonymous chatter. It's not absolute anonymity -- as SysOp I could probably deduce anyone's identiy in any number of ways, but as the old internet didn't concern itself with that -- as long as nobody got weird -- that is how users expressed themselves freely.
I'm not saying there won't be problems or shall we say "adventures". I'm saying to you, become a part of them. While developing the BuffScan project, you will also be doing your part to retain the liberties of the old web and internet. These are two causes meant for each other and I am thrilled to have engineered this meld of them.
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Fire at 675 Auburn Ave.
12/21/2024
Fire at 675 Auburn Ave in Buffalo. 12/21/24
We'll be on the look out for any Gofunds or stories to help the families of this fire that broke out at approximately 1 PM Saturday 12/21/24 on Auburn Avenue.
Can you imagine just before Christmas? Not cool. I feel for everyone that has to scramble now but I do hope they can somehow find spirit and love this season in spite of this.
I was able to jaunt out and compile ground footage in what I consider a very rusty response -- having not beat to an event in many months and woefully unprepared in terms of my tech and the weather. I was not prepared for the cold and could only live feed and film for maybe 10 minutes before leaving the scene.
You can find the resulting clips on the raw BuffScan X feed though here is a sample below.
Note that included scanner audio does not correlate with timing of video content.
BFD recapped on the air that (in total to the house) there was approximately $104,000 in damage. There was also extension damage to houses on either side totaling about $4,000.
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