The bottom-up approach the FBI has used to identify, capture and find evidence against January 6th Capitol Rioters can and should be used by activists and organizations at all levels.

::::::::

The bottom-up approach the FBI has used to identify, capture and find evidence against January 6th Capitol Rioters can and should be used by activists and organizations at all levels.

The FBI has identified or arrested over 700 participants in the attack on the the US Capitol. The way they've identified many of them is very bottom-up. The Huffpost did this article, The FBI's Secret Weapon In The Capitol Attack Manhunt.which provided some fascinating details.

Basically, a network of people assembled a communication system they used to identify suspects, clues, tips that were of interest and value to the FBI.

At least some of them go by the moniker "Sedition Hunters".

Here's a bit of what the Huffpost article reports.

"The sleuths have a wealth of information that the broader public won't learn for months. They know that two suspects currently on the FBI's website are related to defendants who have already been charged with lesser offenses in the Capitol riot. They know that someone else on the FBI list died suddenly a few months ago. They know that another suspected participant in the Jan. 6 attack has been arrested in connection with a long-unsolved murder. And they've compiled information that likely will never land in an FBI case: like the fact that there were more than 50 dogs among the mob on Jan. 6.

The FBI's Capitol riot investigation was pretty chaotic in the early days as the bureau attempted to separate the wheat from the chaff amid hundreds of thousands of tips from the public. It could be difficult for investigators with rock-solid tips to get the bureau's attention.

But there's been a shift as the investigation has progressed. Citizen investigators who previously had to submit their tips through forms on the FBI's website now either have individual relationships with FBI special agents or at least know someone who can ensure the information gets into the right hands. If they turn up relevant information about a defendant who has already been charged " say, evidence of a misdemeanor defendant assaulting an officer, or a defendant on pretrial release violating the conditions of their release " sleuths have reached out to federal prosecutors directly.

Their meticulously compiled dossiers are so in-depth that in some cases they effectively ghostwrote FBI affidavits, laying out bulletproof cases against Capitol rioters based on open-source intelligence alone. Their crowdsourced Capitol maps and catchy nicknames for Jan. 6 rioters have shown up in Justice Department filings time and time again. Many of the sleuths are still astonished at the effect they're having in the largest FBI investigation in the bureau's history."

This shows the bottom-up power and potential of the people. I wonder how much they could do partly instead of and partly in cooperation with the FBI.

And it inspires me to envision similar collective networks of people participating in all kinds of efforts to investigate things, actions, organizations and people. I'm wondering if there's website software out there that could optimize sharing and archiving of information. And why not pay the people who contribute to the production of useful results. The FBI probably has some.

The same approach could be used to:

• help solve criminal investigations, help police in a plethora of ways.
• investigate every billionaire, every high ticket funder of dastardly causes.
• help innocent people in prison.
• find additional information and clues for treatment of different diseases.
• Identify and find new injustices.
• Analyze systems and relationships, like State Department, economic, ecological, scientific and political stuff.

Top-down-thinking-addicted people might be uncomfortable with the idea of sharing information. This is not for everyone, though it should be.

There ought to be a way to monetize people's contributions for some of the networks. That means contributors in the collective intelligence network would get money and beneficiaries should pay. The USA spent about $85 billion a yearfor National and Military intelligence. It would be smart to start spending some money on bottom-up investigative networks. It would be reasonable to see them budget at least 10% of the Intelligence budget, about $10 billion.

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.

Authors Bio:

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.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

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
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

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 and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

Follow Rob on Twitter & Facebook.

His quotes are here

Rob's articles express his personal opinion, not the opinion of this website.

Join the conversation:

On facebook at Rob Kall's Bottom-up The Connection Revolution

and at Google Groups listserve Bottom-up Top-down conversation