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Building city capacity to combat social media fraud
0:38:25
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Council Member Alexa Avilés questions DCWP about how the city is developing its capacity to track and combat fraud occurring through social media platforms.
- Avilés emphasizes the need for the city to build its apparatus to address cybercrime
- She inquires about how DCWP is developing its own capacity to investigate and address social media fraud
- The discussion highlights the challenge of addressing cybercrime, which is becoming increasingly prevalent
- DCWP's response suggests they may not have a comprehensive strategy for building this capacity within their agency
Alexa Avilés
0:38:25
Yeah, I guess 100% I think we are clear and hold consensus that preventative engagement is critical.
0:38:38
However, it does beg a question around how the city is building its apparatus.
0:38:42
If it understands that let's say people are bringing are victims of fraud through social media.
0:38:53
It begs the question how are we building our apparatus to be able to track that and combat that.
0:38:59
And so I guess what I'm not entirely hearing is how the agency is building its own capacity to be able either to investigate and or address that side of it and maybe that's not your role in particular, but we know cybercrime is probably higher than maybe almost any other crime.
0:39:22
So what I'm curious to understand is how the agency is earnestly understand earnestly building its own capacity to be able to support people and or the city engage in as much prevention and response to the crimes.