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Worcester council committee OKs crime forecasting report, further public airing of the technology WORCESTER At a City Council subcommittee meeting Monday night, residents continued to voice concerns over the proposed purchase of crime forecasting technology for the Police Department. Some residents, including several who represented neighborhood crime watch groups, called in to the Public Safety Committee virtual meeting to support the city s proposed use of ShotSpotter Connect technology, but for more than two hours, many residents criticized the technology, and took issue with how it was presented to the City Council two weeks ago. The committee voted 3-0 to approve the report Monday, but did not make a recommendation to the full council on whether the city should move forward with the program. The committee voted on orders to arrange meetings on the program with community groups and to have it presented at a citywide crime watch meeting. ....
Worcester Magazine DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Reading accounts by Telegram City Hall reporter Steve Foskett and former Worcesteria columnist Bill Shaner about the Planning Board review of the proposed Amazon Warehouse at the site of the deceased Greendale Mall, I was struck by the situation s familiarity. Corporate predators such as Amazon have long insinuated their selves into Worcester, as they have almost everywhere in the country, usually scoring tax credits for promising jobs that always turn out to be insufficient and underwhelming. Amazon, particularly, has had issues with low pay and back-breaking labor conditions, so it s easy to see why many want no part of them, although those same people aren t canceling their Prime subscriptions. (Mine just recommended Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky. I think our corporate overlords have developed a sense of humor.) But as Shaner points out, none of that s the purview of the Planning Board, so the warehouse is probably goin ....