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Explaining "DeauthorizeTheMedia"
03/03/2024
I created this editorial vlog in 2022 to try explain the tag and shed light on my personal philosophy regarding modern media, which is a pillar for the BuffScan project itself.
I forgot if I ever actually published this anywhere or if it actually has just been rotting on my hard drive as I speculate in the video, but here it is again to refresh the position in any case.
I'd actually be interested if any of you media folks have an opinion on any of the points this rando makes - it's an open forum after all!
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Stabbing Incident at 240 West Ferry
09/23/2023
It's interesting that while I did have my phone active with the BuffScan live feed while commuting home yesterday, I didn't pay much attention to the call out for a stabbing. I did hear "stabbing", but I didn't hear or pay attention to the address of it. Had I, I might have known that I was driving head-first into a crime scene just a block or two from my house.
When I first encountered and posted media of the incident from the scene I had no idea what I was recording. I didn't associate the "stabbing" I had overheard with it (if I remembered it at all) largely, I imagine, because there was so much public safety response here, it seemed like something more dramatic than that.
In any case, yeah, I caught this post-stabbing ground footage of police and medical personnel managing the scene.
The address given in the radio call is technically the address of the Hope Refugee Drop-In Center but as there has been no MSM coverage or any police release yet to explain, I don't know if this is something that happened in the center itself, or was just some street brawl that occurred outside or around it.
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Response Porn Exhibit 1
08/28/2023
BFD responding to anchored boat in distress from a point at 1 West Ferry. Distressed vessels frequently trigger response vehicle traffic down West Ferry Street. This time I happened to be in a position to record.
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Takedown Porn - You've Heard of Dumpster Diving
07/02/2023
Okay, we don't know what the kid in this video was was being chased for. It might have been some juvenile level nonsense like spray painting a vulgarity on the side of a building, or maybe he's a "KIA boy" the police actually had a running bead on. Or, maybe he was trying to get a USB stick containing solid evidence that Hunter Biden sold America out to the Chinese with his dad, to the right people, and the "cops" are paid hitmen to track'em down and neautralize the geopolitical threat.
In any case, it's great "takedown porn", which you should know I'm totally into. It's not local to Buffalo -- I don't think -- but, it's one of those posts I like to share whenever I happen across them in my web searches.
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No, BuffScan is Not Posting the Video Leak
06/24/2023
I and by extension BuffScan occupy a unique place in the spectrum of police/public relationship quality. On one hand, I can be seen as an agitator-nuisance, what with all this "open broadcasting" and glorification of public safety drama bullshit (objective characterization I mean, to me, it's not "BS"). In other words a troublemaker sure to bite his way to someone's retaliation or to get himself killed somehow. The obit on myself were it to involve my activities, would not surprise me in the least.
But on the other hand I am an open non-sexual "police groupie" type. I love law enforcement, its structure, its institutions, its entire point in a viable working healthy society. Progressive and ardent BLM supporters (the foaming aggressive ones at least) would take me as a bootlicker.
Now of course I would not go that far, but if anyone erroneously felt that way, I get it. I try to post only positive things here whenever it's a police thing that I have to talk about, which I won't deny.
For example, there was a Ring-style camera video posted online about two weeks ago -- somewhere -- showing a local area police officer in full uniform, gun and all, who stows behind a building for a quick pee.
The video camera captured it all in at least 1080...P.
I have that video saved, but I sure as hell ain't posting it. And I go out of my way to mention this to demonstrate some kind of institutional compassion. For one, the situation deserves it. The officer was probably on a detail (I suspect but don't know related to the art festival. Def something like that in any case), and just had to go, period. I am sure that it was a breach of desperation and seeing the video posted with its at-last-count 2.2K views, had to be the most embarrassing thing ever for the officer.
And second, related to that empathy, I've done the same thing under far less noble circumstances. Thanks to a night of heavy drinking and a decision to "walk it" home, there is now a building on Delaware Avenue with the residue of my diabetically over-sweetened urine, sprinkled in place by me making the bladder gladder when I had nine blocks to the bathroom. I know that my desperate situation and ultimate handling of it exists in some commercial building's security video archive, and I would hate to see that posted.
It's noteworthy too that the local MSM media feels the same way, evidently. Though it has been a few weeks now, it has not, despite its higher than average view count for the forum it exists in, to the best of my knowledge at least, been seized upon and raised to the level of ever-profitable "gotcha" journalism, which it easily could be.
I felt the need to explain why the local website of pure public safety openness and the self-admitted embracer of drama and gasolining-on, might not immediately bee-line to post this video, particularly when nobody else has. In this website's early days let this be a notable example and acknowledgment that even I have my limits when it comes to respecting individuals in this sort of very specific situation.
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Buffalo Police Investigate BuffScan Property
05/24/2023
So this happened this afternoon. As best as I can deduce from the BuffScan feed playback, officers were searching the neighborhood for a gun suspect which brought at least one officer to the very porch of BuffScan Operational Headquarters.
The actual incident that prompted the search appears to have taken place several blocks south and it is unclear if the search ultimately resulted in a takedown - which would have been awesome.
But, the radio chatter suggested that police were associating the suspect with a 4 door blue Acura. After I made this video footage a Ring Neighborhood app post, one commentator said they spotted one leaving the neighborhood fast.
De-tects, you might find this one interesting if you're still looking for the suspect.
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Something Unbelievable Happens In This Video
04/23/2023
Couple of interesting facets to this incident that occurred near the intersection of Grant and West Ferry. But the really big one will be spotted only by the sharpest eyes. Watch the video closely.
I became cognizant of this incident, which was just a block or two outside my BuffScan residential response zone, by sirens running past my apartment. One siren had the gun of an engine that told me it was a) the police, and b) it was something serious enough to merit charging to the scene.
And believe it or not, despite the excitement of the obvious crisis -- somewhere nearby -- my first instinct was not to crawl out of bed to investigate. I could tell it wasn't "just out front" and as fate had it, I was suffering from the lingering effect of what felt like the flu. I was too comfy under the covers and while I knew I was missing something "just close enough" maybe, I wasn't getting up to see what.
That was for the first siren, and I believe for the second. But after the third, and then, when I managed myself up to look out the window, I saw two other police cars racing sans lights and sirens in the same direction, I knew, well shoot, physical health be damned, I had to figure out what was up.
Whatever the heck it was, I couldn't legitimately be "Mister BuffScan" if the world was coming down a few blocks away and I didn't at least try to go and document it. So, mumbling and grumbling I found my sneakers and got going.
I also fired up the YouTube BuffScan feed to get some insight as to what I might be foolishly driving myself into, but only in time to hear this one line: "Cars slow it down, slow it down for Grant and West Ferry."
Well at least I knew where this thing was. Just a few blocks up. In the back of my mind I had hoped it would be farther away so that I could just wave it off as "too far" and get myself back into bed. But with that veracious a response, and so close, well, as I've said already, I couldn't not go check it out.
So off I go in my car. As I turn out of the driveway I immediately spot the conflagration of police and fire trucks directly ahead of me. It wouldn't be a far drive, and while I was at it, I could pick up some toilet paper after I was done recording whatever was going on. I suspected the flu after all, people, and I needed a resupply.
I did park my car in a near empty parking lot across the street, hopped out, and in no time was that weirdo filming the scene; some footage of which you see above.
The scene I had injected myself into was a block-length's line of police vehicles, some with overheads on, some not. Most dramatically as you see in the video, one of them had been driven on to the sidewalk as if having just about driven into the building ahead of it.
A group of firemen and police were "working on" someone seemingly at the hood of the BPD cruiser and immediately I feared the worst. Had a BPD vehicle physically mowed someone down? Was there a shootout that meant an officer had to keep his attention on a gun instead of the steering wheel? The layout wasn't good so I mentally prepared myself for whatever gruesome thing those people were hovering over.
In short order I heard the bellowing cries of a man and knew right away someone hadn't been killed, irregardless of whatever happened. Thank god. The cries came from what I took to be a brown-skinned man lying on the ground, still in a bit of a physical tussel. He was shouting arbitrary sentences at the people trying desperately to tend to him.
I settled on what most of the others standing around me did, which was that someone enduring a mental health crisis, or drug consumption, was having a breakdown and acting out. He was probably confronted by the police somehow and then challenged them which of course did not end well. At this writing, the actual story is still unknown, but when speculating, it's fair to start with the simple theories first.
But in looking at the video, all of that is really beside the point. A block's worth of police, an untold gaggle of police officers remunerating everything among themselves; citizens standing around aghast, a screaming perp-victim on the ground who was bounded quickly and loaded into an ambulance (and I might add much to his apparent objection), and a weirdo - heh - filming it all.
And yet, what you see in the video is this: Absolutely nothing.
And by that I mean, save for my filming, save for the inside knowledge of the public safety system and a few direct witnesses, to the wider knowledge of the world at large, nothing happened. This was a non-event that evaporated of police cars and witnesses relatively quickly afterwards.
Don't take that the wrong way. Yes, the information exists. Police have it, AMR has it, the fire department has it, and even the witnesses with their individual memories and renditions, have it. And certainly with great effort, the story of what happened could be "mined away" from the people who hold it. Maybe it would flow freely from them on the simplest of query. Maybe it would take a fight, if for some reason it mattered to have one. Maybe a resource-strapped for-profit media house would actually step up and blotter it as perhaps a lit up city block of public safety vehicles should be logically incentivizing enough to do.
But then again, maybe not.
Information is caprciously over-controlled. Maybe there is fear of wrong-doing and mismanagement; or maybe, as the saying goes: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who knows. But if public safety feels something is too routine, or the for-profit media is too lean to cover it, whatever dark thing we think can happen in a world where human curiosity is squelched, might-could.
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Ambulance Crash is Example of Traversion Encounter
04/20/2023
Just after 7:00 PM I overheard a radio call for an accident involving an ambulance at Humboldt and Main and decided to document public safety response, thereby logging my first traversion encounter as BuffScan Node #1.
A traversion encounter is one we can define as becoming cognizent of a documentable incident during a BuffScan Noder's normal travels (in my case, during my home commute).
Although this particular event was detected over the police scanner, I would expect that in a post-radio-scanning-world, traversion encounters would be more direct and by nature, random. A BuffScan Node member must be ready with their camera or media hardware, and related documentation plan at all times for this type of encounter.
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Although the ambulance driver reports an injured colleague, we can take from lack of any mainstream news mention this morning that, at least hopefully, the injuries were not serious. Granted my scan of mainstream news headlines here has been pretty cursory and perhaps it is too early after the matter.
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Pizza Delivery Man's Huge Trip
04/18/2023
Not local but you get my local voice. :)
This takedown occurred in Delaware County Pennsylvania and it didn't involve the police at least insofar as the takedown itself. Rather, it involved pizza delivery driver Tyler Morrell who happened to be at the right place at the right time, and had the right gumption.
He delivers for Cocco's Pizza in Aston (here's the for some-reason unsecure website but it's probably fine - here is their Facebook page if you prefer big tech corporate privacy invasion over a potential hacker invasion).
I've had to look around for the best online depiction of this thing and Doorbell News seemed to have the best -- none of that mayonaise media intro BS. That and it shows off the whole thing which is important for the fresh delivery finish.
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Buffalo Police Avoid a Hole In One
04/16/2023
This video posted to the Ring Neighbors app last week shows the urgent, safe, and effective takedown of an individual who, to likely anyone's eye, was experiencing a mental health issue or out of control public drunkness.
The video shows a man intermittently and wildly swinging a golf club at "air adversaries" around him as he wobbles erratically down the street. He also carried a bottle which he periodically places on the ground and picks back up over and over again.
The takedown was clean without any of that "passive-escalation" crap where officers scream something like "drop the weapon fucker or I'll blow you away!" approach that, well, tends to naturally provoke a reaction to deadly ends. We see that a lot in videos, including (mostly) technically "justified shooting" ones.
This is not the only video circulating of BPD officers doing professional clean takedown work but confrontations are fluid and differ from situation to situation. Emotional strength and discipline are always a matter of "holding your breath" to see if that's what actually prevails.
That's why this incident is particularly special. If you actually watch the video, the suspect even crudely arms himself by shattering his bottle just as he is being cornered by police in the covered vestibule of a venue that had patrons huddling nervously off as the incident unfolded just a few shoulder-lengths away
Circulating on the RIng Neighbors App on 4/7. Video is additionally edited for BuffScan posting.
The Ring Neighborhood post commentary suggests that this occurred on Hertel avenue. The poster was rightly commended for his video quality which he attributed to the WHD103Z dome camera system, which is a bit more than the average homeowner would probably install. I assume the OP was somehow connected to the business hosting the camera.
Whether confrontational outcomes are good or bad, I generally avoid weighing in on the merit of police action (or maybe better put, I like to think that I do). To me, whether they are singing praise or condeming actions, people do this as a way to mitigate the power that law enforcement has over them which to me is a weaker stance if there has to be that psychological orientation in the first place. To me, like journalists, cops are just people forced to work in potentially explosive unpredictable circumstances all the time. As such results will vary, but nobody is the devil for it.
That being said, they didn't shoot this guy and my guess is the moment the man shattered that bottle and armed himself, they could-might-have.
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