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I was on the Powderhorn/Cano/Frey/Rondo call. It's just heartbreaking, after residents shared stories, ideas and concerns that are so strong and real and concrete, to listen to Frey and Rondo spout absolute gloss. "The plan is to stop the violence." That's not remotely a plan.
Rondo said "intelligence" and "proactive enforcement" followed by "as far as tactics, those are things our leadership teams will work out." You can't tell this group of residents about one single plan or tactic in concrete details?
Frey at least has some housing initiatives, and can mention Group Violence Intervention. But the rest was a chop salad of "hire more cops" "culture" "training" "psych testing" "playground sets for kids" "revamped [existing] policy" "get the right ones out [except I can't]"
Their winning line is "74 homicides & 500+ shot" and counting on people to fill in the rest from conventional wisdom. They shed no light. Even from a pro-cop point of view, you can't do better than this?
Not to MENTION the fact that "proactive enforcement" could easily mean the kind of stop-and-handcuff-and-harrass tactic of which a young Black resident shared his experience on that very same call. Rondo apologized - but didn't say how he'd prevent it from happening again.
