Then there's the USA's annual budget for policing-- $118 billion in 2018, and probably more like $150 billion in 2022. Integrating local people into policing policies and strategies could totally change the nature of policing. We should trust the power of bottom-up crowd sourcing and invest at least ten percent of that in crowd sourced policing.
We, particularly elected leaders, are pathologically addicted to top-down thinking. This is a simple concept that could be easily implemented but it will be very difficult. Authoritarians will denounce it as socialism or communism. But it is a force and power that lies deep within us, programmed in our DNA, as I've detailed in my book, Bottom-up Revolution.
We can do this and it could make a huge difference, as the FBI discovered.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)