NEW YORK, NY, February 11, 2021 — Mark43, the leading cloud-based public safety software company, today announced that it has launched an open, publicly available, RESTful application programming interface (API), becoming the first CAD/RMS platform to do so. To aid in its use, developers.mark43.com was created to provide approved partner developers with clear, easy-to-use API…

While Lafayette 911 is purchasing the new system, all of the emergency responders who use the CAD tested potential vendors. Mark43 received the top marks, which made the decision to switch that much easier, Stansbury said.

A growing number of departments are partnering with firms like Mark43, a tech firm behind a cloud-computing platform for managing arrest and case records that makes it easier for law enforcement officials to share and analyze data.

Police departments should gauge the sentiment of the communities they serve before adopting new law enforcement technologies like unmanned aerial vehicles or artificial intelligence, speakers said at a session on 21st-century policing Friday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.

Central to the discussion was an assertion that good community policing will almost certainly remain human-based. There is not, in effect, a scenario any of them see in which actual human police officers are replaced by algorithms or drones. The movie Robocop is — for myriad reasons — not a future that any of us should be waiting for. Ditto to the predictive one in the movie Minority Report.

With the tech, media and entertainment world descending upon Austin, Texas, for the annual mega-conference, there are a number of panels, installations and speakers of interest to those in the public sector.

Continuing a trajectory of recent growth through partnerships and fundraising, Mark43, a company that makes data-management and communications software for law enforcement, is working with Carbyne’s next-generation 911 system to give agencies the ability to use an entirely cloud-based call-and-dispatch (CAD) operation.

“If a catastrophic event hit a PSAP or dispatch center, and they needed to reorganize the operations and move elsewhere to get spun up quickly, the partnership between Carbyne and Mark43 will get them 100% of the way there.”

Jeff Bezos is not only the world’s richest man, he’s also a very smart investor. That’s especially true when he invests in startups. Over the past few years, he’s put money into several new companies that turned out to be phenomenally successful, including Airbnb, Uber, General Assembly, MakerBot, and Lookout. Where is Bezos putting his money…