Why not use to cell phone data to evaluate the traffic around Uvalde during the shooting and the drills and see perhaps if there were any unusual patterns regarding emergency workers or out of towners? This data is used extensively in commercial real estate and financial markets and is widely available, I’m surprised it is not used for more things. For example, intelligence was able to note a drop off in activity at the Wuhan lab before the worldwide announcement, anybody could have bought the data and seen the same
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Excellent point and idea. Sadly it will not happen. A medical emergency helicopter was dispatched from Kerrville to Uvalde, a half an hour before the shooter arrived. That's some psychic power!
That post is what gave me the idea. The helicopter is compelling, but as a stand-alone observation, there are plenty of feasible alternative explanations (same reason the video or a single drop box ping in Mules would have been insufficient). If you can cross reference independent items, say if media or people from the March drill were showing unusual activity around the school prior to shooting, those items combined with the helicopter would be compelling. I don’t purport to know what happened, but it is frustrating to me when this data obviously exists, is accessible and not that expensive (clearly the data firm did not want to be cited in the film for obvious reasons, but there are several “alternative data” providers who sell this for not all that much money). It’s wild to me that the media’s response to things they seem disinformation is all about suppression - this should be a very simple task. You could drop probably 10k and have a detailed map of activity around the shooting - it boggles the mind there is no outlet that sees doing so as a positive to break a story - even if it doesn’t show anything unexpected. Clearly “what happened” and “how can we do better operationally” is 100% backseat to prying victims families for the most emotionally impactful vignettes.