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Countering assaults on public safety

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This is thought-provoking:

Public service employees in the Netherlands face aggression and violence on the streets more and more often. Onlookers unfortunately do not intervene often enough when they encounter a situation like this.

A live interactive billboard in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is used to place people in a similar situation witch confronts them with their inactivity.

Video concludes with four action steps:

Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

Posted by on August 6, 2010 • Filed under: crime, culture, EMS Health & Safety, Firefighter Safety & Health, News, public relations, Urban Commander, Videos • Tagged: , , ,
  • http://www.rmesfire.org Jay911

    I'm not sure that this doesn't have the opposite effect – reducing the problem to a gimmicky “background” (or foreground) event on a video wall. In North America, I fear that people would be more interested in the fact they were on TV than the message being (or trying to be) delivered.

  • pamedic

    …this is why EMS providers should be allowed to carry at least SOME sort of protection.