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Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman addresses the BIF-3 summit today.

PROVIDENCE -- Chief Esserman is saying most crime does not get reported, or solved.

"We're anonymous and distant and you don't know who we are... It's a one-way relationship. America has accepted that."

Community policing: "We're in the midst of a quiet revolution. We're thinking of becoming a different type of police force, a department that has moved into the neighborhoods of the community."

"Crime is up nationwide...But crime is down here. ... We have an honest mayor. Let me say that again. We have an honest mayor."

"One day I hope people will call 'the family cop.' "

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Business Innovation Factory is hosting a theater of ideas called the Collaborative Innovation Summit at Trinity Rep today and tomorrow.

I spent the first half-hour of this conference wrestling my laptop onto the wi-fi network while taking notes for when I got in. Finally, we're here.

Saul Kaplan of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation -- his title here is Chief Catalyst -- welcomed the roughly 350 attendees.

Matt Cottam, of Tellart, who teaches industrial design at RISD, described a Defense Department project to train army medics for a disaster simulation using life-sized robots.

Euan Semple, who introduced blogs, wikis and rss to the BBC, spoke of "the daftness of organizational life, where people sometimes fight with each other who should be helping each other."

The BBC's "troublemakers -- the people who were breaking the things that needed to be broken -- were video editors."

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