The Heat's Back On > Batista Out In Abrupt Resignation As Mesa PD Chief

Here we go! It's not a surprise and it is not unexpected . . . lurking behind it all is > 

City Manager Chris Brady was all ready to Spin that story this morning, and it looks like every mainstream media was ready outside City Hall to tape it. . .

[inserts of multiple video-clips can be viewed below]

Watch them - they're all the same!

Now really who cares if Chris Brady - portraying himself in a new image as " Mr. Nice Guy " - and the now quickly-retired police chief 'will remain friends'?? 

BLOGGER NOTE: Brady has a different rep with City staff

Hard-to-believe when there's been a riot-in-the-ranks that's been brewing and rumbling for a long time under the surface when Brady announced two years ago the hiring of the former assistant Tucson Police Chief.
Somehow that didn't seem to be the right thing to do . . . 

City officials announced Monday that Batista is leaving the department "to pursue personal interests and other professional opportunities."

. . . and tomorrow they're all ready to announce the appointment of an interim to take on the job!
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BLOGGER NOTE: Obviously the script used by Chris Brady didn't just happen in response to an abrupt resignation - the city's high-salaried public information officers probably had to 'pitch-in' to help and probably the entire narrative got run by Mesa's City Attorney.
. . . and the best of all? Everyone will be working together. . .
Could be just another one of those unintended consequences for decisions made by city officials that come back-to-bite
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Even a newspaper - https://www.mysanantonio.com/news  -  from San Antonio, Texas where City Manager Chris Brady worked as a deputy city manager before getting hired as 'an outsider' as the city's Chief Executive Officer here in Mesa in 2005, had the story:

City: Embattled Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista

has resigned

Updated 6:09 pm CST, Monday, November 4, 2019  

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — "Embattled Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista resigned Monday, five months after two police unions cast votes of no confidence in him.

The department has been under scrutiny in recent years for a high-profile murder trial and a pair of videotaped encounters involving its officers.

In a statement, city officials said Batista was leaving the department "to pursue personal interests and other professional opportunities," and the selection of an interim police chief could be announced Tuesday.
Batista was Mesa's third police chief in nine years. He had been in charge since July 2017 after serving as assistant chief of the Tucson Police Department.
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Re: High-Profile Murder Trial
Brutal Shock: Mesa PD-The Brutal Brailsford Killing of Daniel Shaver > Trauma and Pay-Offs Here In Mesa

It's just one story that's getting more attention all the time - 3 years and 6 months after an incident that the City of Mesa tried hard to cover-up for far too long.

Last week we found out about a new twist to the shameful saga when local mainstream media ABC15 revealed that Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford had been granted a pension last year:
"The local five-member PSPRS board, which includes Mesa City Manager Brady, voted in October 2018 to grant Brailsford an accidental disability pension. physical or mental condition

Time to Wake-Up Mesa! Evidence is piling-up big time
After murder acquittal, Mesa ex-cop Philip Brailsford made a pension deal

Posted: 6:39 PM, Jul 10, 2019

"Two years after he shot an unarmed man and was fired, former police officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford was rehired by the City of Mesa in order to obtain a special pension. Now, Brailsford is considered medically retired, not fired, according to a Mesa city spokesman. . .
"Brailsford was fired from the police department after the shooting for violations of department policy. He was also charged with murder, but he was later acquitted. Brailsford appealed his termination. . Later in 2018, he signed an agreement with the Mesa City Manager’s Office. The agreement, obtained by ABC15, included that Brailsford would be rehired temporarily to allow him to apply for an accidental disability pension and medical retirement. The terms prevented Brailsford from performing any job duties or getting paid during the period of reemployment. "He was eligible for retirement benefits, so he applied for them," City Manager Chris Brady said.
"More than two years had passed since Brailsford's termination, so he would not have qualified without the special agreement to be rehired. Mesa city officials claim the whole process was held in "abeyance," or put on hold, while Brailsford stood trial."
BLOGGER NOTES: The trial dragged on for a long time. The real-time police body-cam video was first released in an edited version instead of getting released immediately . . .
What happened?

Miscarriage of Justice Here In Mesa Gets More National Attention: The Case of Philip Brailsford



Image credit: TomTingle
 Arizona Republic via AP

Daniel Shaver Killing: Cop Applied for a Pension and got it.
The opening image for this post - with the cop looking back over his shoulder - is taken from the first of a number of articles used in this report.
He Killed an Unarmed Man, Then Claimed Disability

The latest twist in the police shooting of Daniel Shaver

by Conor Friedersdorf

Staff writer at The Atlantic  Jul 18, 2019

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Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista resigns | FOX 10 Phoenix

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Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista resigns. FOX 10's Matt Rodewald reports. Posted just in. Facebook

 

Mesa police chief abruptly resigns - YouTube

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A union cast an overwhelming no-confidence vote against Chief Ramon Batista in June.
 

Embattled Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista has resigned

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City officials announced Monday that Batista is leaving the department "to pursue personal interests and other

 

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Make it Lithium-Carbide...
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The Trump Tool-Box > Hands-On Prayer Circle / God's Gift To America

O Lordy! OMG The Hypocrisy of it all!
Evangelical Christians gathering around The Donald somewhere in The White House the other day at a prayer breakfast ceremony to ask for a Healing by laying their hands on him . . . when the hands-of-the-law are having a hard to get their hands on evidence for charges of crimes and misdemeanors in the Highest Office in The Land.

From GOD TV
By Nathan Simpson January 13, 2017
Like him or not, it is your duty to pray for President Donald Trump
"Look, I know this election season has been anything but pleasurable. The United States found itself “between a rock and a hard place.” But just because the person who is rising to power can be disagreeable at times does not mean we can just disregard him. Quite contrary, it is our Biblical duty to pray for the president-elect, and often. If you’re not praying for Donald Trump fervently then you are disobeying God’s Word. I’ll even go as far as to say that God says that every President ever has been chosen. That’s a serious statement which will lead us into some interesting discussions. . ."  https://godtv.com
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‘Blessed Be Thy Hush Money’: George Conway Skewers Religious Leaders Praying For Trump

By Mary Papenfuss /

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“Blessed be thy hush money, mayest all quid pro quos be thine, and mayest thy falsehoods persuade the multitudes,” Conway scoffed on Twitter Friday.

Blessed be thy hush money, mayest all quid pro quos be thine, and mayest thy falsehoods persuade the multitudes. https://t.co/EXGFNG24bi

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 2, 2019

Conway was reacting to a photo originally posted on Thursday by Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, which showed a group of conservative religious leaders putting their hands on Trump in the White House to pray for him. . .
Twitter users joined in on the spirit of Conway’s fractured “prayer.”

What happens between @realDonaldTrump, his wives, his mistresses, porn stars and Playmates... is between him, his lawyers, non-disclosure agreements, and God.
From: Two Corinthians

— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) November 2, 2019

That’s about the same number of people who have alleged he inappropriately put his hands on them.

— Greg Gilhooly (@GregGilhooly) November 2, 2019 

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The medium is the message:

Watching 50% of Humanity Go Online Over a Single Day is ... Mesmerizing

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Apr 14, 2019 - We present and analyse visualisations from the Monash University IP Observatory of internet connectivity through a single pseudo-24 hour day ...

 

Watching 50% of Humanity Go Online Over a Single Day is Pretty Mesmerizing

And it turns out that everyone, everywhere, eventually switches off and goes to bed.
Well, almost.

The Monash IP Observatory

Apr 14 · 8 min read

 

"Here at the Monash University IP Observatory, we handle hundreds of millions of observations of internet connectivity and quality every day. While most of our time is spent providing communities around the world with near real-time monitoring of the internet during major natural disasters or periods of intense concern for political and online freedoms, every so often, we allow ourselves a chance to push the chair back, head over to the big monitor on the wall, and toggle the zoom knobs on the dash to planetary mode.

I guess classical astronomers did the same thing every once in a while. For them, the task was actually pretty trivial, but no less awe inspiring. Just the simple act of lifting their eye from the view-finder, descending the ladder, and stepping out into the cool air of the mountain top was all it took for them to see their beloved stars in universe mode. What a job.

Today, at the IP Observatory, we had one of those days. And we couldn’t help but share.

In this piece, we present visualisations that cycle through a single pseudo-24 hour day created by collapsing our entire set of global observations during March 2019 into average readings for each hour of the day at over 10,000 sub-national regional locations world-wide.

In all, that comes to making sense of over 1.3 billion observations.

. . . What’s sort of mesmerizing is the way that you can see the diurnal cycle of night and day sweep over the face of the map.

To be clear, this isn’t us overlaying the day/night cycle on the map, the periodic rise and fall of colours is generated directly from the variations of internet connectivity in our measurements

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GO TO THIS LINK TO SEE THE VISUALIZATIONS >

https://medium.com/insights-monash-university-ip-observatory/watching-50-of-humanity-go-online-is-pretty-mesmerizing-398906d4b6a

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This is so much more 5 days ago from https://www.pewresearch.org

28 Oct 2019

Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life

1. Themes about the next 50 years of life online

By Kathleen Stansberry, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie

"When the 530 participants in this study shared wide-ranging insights about the future, most of their responses were tied to hopes and concerns over human evolution in light of technological change.

A share of their comments referred to technological advances such as

• brain-computer interfaces
• virtual immersive experiences that will teach and entertain users
• pervasive connectivity linked to artificial intelligence (AI) that helps people navigate the world and understand it better and predictive
• personalized applications that make life easier and more enjoyable.

A few predicted space-based interactions.

The respondents pushed for an array of reforms in laws, international treaties, technology systems and educational processes to try to lessen the known harms that digital technologies already create.

The next sections of this report briefly describe the most common themes from respondents and include remarks by Internet Hall of Fame members and other internet pioneers.

After that, several additional chapters cover the broad theses of hundreds of other responses, bunched into broad categories.

Some answers have been lightly edited for clarity.

Creating a fair and equitable digital future

Theme 1: Humanity’s responsibility.

Digital life will continue to be what people make of it. For a better future, humans must make responsible decisions about their partnership with technology
 

Theme 2: Public policy and regulation.

The age of a mostly unregulated internet will come to an end. Elected officials and technology leaders will move ahead with regulatory frameworks aimed at protecting the public good. The lawless alternative has caused dangerous disruptions across society.
 

Theme 3: Internet of everything.

In 50 years, internet use will be nearly as pervasive and necessary as oxygen. Seamless connectivity will be the norm, and it may be impossible to unplug.
 

Theme 4: Visions of the future.

From amazing advancements to dystopian developments, experts imagine a wide array of possible scenarios for the world 50 years in the future.

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Hopeful visions of 2069

Theme 1: Living longer and feeling better.

Internet-enabled technology will help people live longer and healthier lives. Scientific advances will continue to blur the line between human and machine.
 

Theme 2: Less work, more leisure.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools will take over repetitive, unsafe and physically taxing labor, leaving humans with more time for leisure.
 

Theme 3: Individualized experiences.

Digital life will be tailored to users
 

Theme 4: Collaboration and community.

A fully networked world will enhance opportunities for global collaboration, cooperation and community development, unhindered by distance, language or time.
 

Theme 5: Power by the people.

Expanded internet access could lead to further disruption of existing social and political power structures, potentially reducing inequality and empowering individuals.
 

Worrisome visions of 2069

Theme 1: Widening divides.

The divide between haves and have-nots will grow as a privileged few hoard the economic, health and educational benefits of digital expansion.
 

Theme 2: Internet-enabled oppression.

A powerful elite will control the internet and use it to monitor and manipulate, while providing entertainment that keeps the masses distracted and complacent.
 

Theme 3: Connected and alone.

The hyper-connected future will be populated by isolated users unable to form and maintain unmediated human relationships.
 

Theme 4: The end of privacy.

Personal privacy will be an archaic, outdated concept as humans willingly trade discretion for improved health care, entertainment opportunities and promises of security.
 

Theme 5: Misallocated trust.

Digital life lays you bare. It can inspire a loss of trust, often earns too much trust and regularly requires that you take the plunge even though you have absolutely no trust.
 

Theme 6: There is no planet B.

The future of humanity is inextricably connected to the future of the natural world.
Without drastic measures to reduce environmental degradation, the very existence of human life in 50 years could be in question.

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Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life

Fifty years after the first computer network was connected, most experts say digital life will mostly change humans’ existence for the better over the next 50 years.
However, they warn this will happen only if people embrace reforms allowing better cooperation, security, basic rights and economic fairness

By Kathleen Stansberry, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie

"The year 1969 was a pivot point in culture, science and technology.
>On Jan. 30, the Beatles played their last show.
> On July 20, the world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon.
> Less than a month later, nearly half a million music fans overran a muddy field near Woodstock, New York, for what Rolling Stone calls the “greatest rock festival ever.”
But the 1969 event that had the greatest global impact on future generations occurred with little fanfare on Oct. 29, when a team of UCLA graduate students led by professor Leonard Kleinrock connected computer-to-computer with a team at the Stanford Research Institute. It was the first host-to-host communication of ARPANET, the early packet-switching network that was the precursor to today’s multibillion-host internet . . .

 

Downtown Mesa's One-Square Mile Grid: GROUND ZERO for Not-Taking Innovation To The Streets

Note 2 Public Plazas

What a long strange trip it's been for your MesaZona blogger in the sixth year of a swift sixth decade of life by time and circumstance to be living here in Downtown Mesa.
That's after years living in big and old, dense and highly-populated urban East Coast cities like Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and New York City, but always in their small dense active thriving neighborhoods.
In Washington it was Georgetown, in Philadelphia it was Logan Circle and South Street, in Boston it was The North End and Fort Point Channel, in New York it was first in Greenwich Village. All those 'neighborhoods" were integral low-rise parts of the high-rise urban cityscape that sprang-up and later developed around them.

What you see in the opening image is the original street grid plan for the "New City of Zion" - an orderly layout for a utopia of sorts. Over time, however and somehow, Mesa City came to be called and known as "the city of wide streets and narrow minds".
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BLOGGER NOTE: It's a good time to take a look again at a $40,000 city-funded symposium staged here in DTMESA one year and ten months ago to change that narrative. . . did it work? Or did the Think-Tank Brookings Institution and ASU speakers miss the mark on their 4-year old program?
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Let's leave that on the back-burner for the time being, and take a look at an article published yesterday by Richard Florida in City Lab
The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods

Richard Florida Nov 1, 2019 

A new study finds evidence that Jane Jacobs was right about the dynamic and innovative qualities spurred by living in dense, urban neighborhoods 

"Long ago, Jane Jacobs showed us how dense, diverse urban neighborhoods filled with short blocks and old buildings were catalysts of innov ation and creativity.
But when economists and urbanists measure innovation they typically look at big geographic areas like metros. Yet, what Jacobs was talking and writing about was the micro-geographic texture of much smaller neighborhoods like her own Greenwich Village.
A new study, forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics, takes a close look at the effect of small urban neighborhoods—and in particular on key characteristics of their physical layout—on innovation.
The study, by Maria P. Roche, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, examines the effect of certain neighborhood characteristics on innovation.
The study compares the rate of innovation (based on patents granted between 2011 and 2013) to two key neighborhood characteristics that capture older more compact, neighborhoods built before the mass onset of the automobile:
(1) street density (based on the total miles of streets shared by cars and pedestrians)
(2) percentage of housing stock built before 1940.

The study finds that neighborhood form—in particular the density and layout of its streets—has a considerable effect on innovation.
> This suggests that neighborhoods with denser streets help facilitate greater knowledge exchange and higher levels of interaction over the ideas they generate, . .

> The study also finds population, employment, and amenities like bars and restaurants to be positively associated with neighborhood level innovation.

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Roche sees these as factors that work together with the layout of streets and neighborhood form to spur interaction between people—the exchange of knowledge and ideas that ultimately generate new innovations.
For too long, we’ve seen innovation as something that takes place in corporate R&D (research and development) centers, university laboratories, and suburban office parks.
But as Jane Jacobs long ago said, new innovations are more likely to come from the density and diversity of urban neighborhoods.
> These Jacobs-identified factors have tended to elude economists and urbanists, who have lacked the kinds of detailed neighborhood-level data and analysis needed to track and identify them.
Until now, most studies of the geography of innovation have tracked innovations or startup companies broadly across cities and metro areas.
Roche’s study uses detailed data to help us better understand how factors of urban form interact with density to shape geographic micro-clusters of innovation at the neighborhood level.
Not only does innovation turn on the presence of universities or concentration of talent or human capital, but on physical characteristics like street layout and form of the neighborhood.
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Taking Innovation to the Streets:

Microgeography, Physical Structure and Innovation                                                        

Maria P. Roche
Posted Online August 21, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00866 

© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Review of Economics and Statistics

-Just Accepted

MIT Press Journals |                        

Review of Economics and Statistics

ABSTRACT
In this paper, we analyze how the physical layout of cities affects innovation by influencing the organization of knowledge exchange. We exploit a novel data set covering all Census Block Groups in the contiguous United States with information on innovation outcomes, street infrastructure, as well as population and workforce characteristics. To deal with concerns of omitted variable bias, we apply commuting zone fixed effects and construct instruments based on historic city planning. The results suggest that variation in street network density may explain regional innovation differentials beyond the traditional location externalities found in the literature.