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The University of California has proposed shocking changes to its policing policies. These changes are directly contrary to national trends toward de-escalation, greater accountability, and alternatives to armed response. The new, costly policies not only expand the coercive power and discretionary authority of the UC Police Department but also continue to inflate its bloated budget.
An earthquake Thursday night was large enough to trigger shake alert warnings on people s smartphones in Northern California.The alerts are part of an earthquake warning system that are sent out when quakes reach magnitude 4.5 or higher and are designed to give people time to take cover. It was actually the first time that we ve been able to use, on this scale, California s earthquake early warning system, said California Office of Emergency Services spokesperson Brian Ferguson.The early warning system goes through the MyShake app, which California first rolled out in October of 2019.The state was the first in the country to adopt the technology. Oregon and Washington have since adopted the system which relies on an intricate network of seismometers strategically placed across the western states to pick up seismic activity. The network will triangulate where that earthquake started and make an estimate of how big that earthquake is, explained Tim Dawson, a senior engineeri