Police and
communities can
find themselves without a way to
communicate. This startup thinks it can help.
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When Kona Shen moved back to the United States in 2014 after a few years in Haiti, she returned to a country grappling with
Police brutality. Eric Garner was killed in a
Police officer's chokehold that July and Michael Brown was shot and killed by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August.
"I came back to the U.S. around the same time as Mike Brown and Eric Garner, and my cofounder is from St. Louis, right next to Ferguson, and he had seen everything firsthand growing up," Shen said. "We had the luxury of figuring out what to do about it."*
Shen knew her next project had to be something that would help. While starting graduate school at Stanford, she joined up with fellow student Mustafa Abdul-Hamid to figure out a way to communicate to
Police departments how their
communities really feel and to help
communities have their voices heard.*
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