Over the past week, NYCMayor hosted his first and second “Community Conversations on Public Safety” for New Yorkers to voice their concerns to a panel of city officials. The inaugural meeting was held last Wednesday [...]
The inaugural meeting was held last Wednesday at Boys and Girls High School in Bed-Stuy, with a second town hall following this past Monday at the Police Athletic League in Harlem. Gathered around tables were school principals, local leaders and law enforcement, who were offered the opportunity to engage amongst each other, as well as funnel questions to the city’s representatives presiding over the forum.
“Ongoing dialogue with our community partners is incredibly important to me because it’s essential to understanding the concerns and needs of the people we serve and building trust and confidence in the work of law enforcement,” he said. “I’m grateful to the mayor and his team for providing this forum, and it was a pleasure to share the effective strategies we’re using to continue the progress we’ve made over the past 18 months as shootings and murders have declined in Brooklyn.
“It felt like a roomful of people that were invited because they would clap for the mayor and not a room full of actual dialogue with the public that would require people to push and challenge and debate,” said Gonzales. “The mayor wasn’t part of the roundtables, he slid in at the end to do his little speech and get claps and to get these like softball questions that were created by his staff. So again, this felt like a farce.
He initially flagged down Adams’ attention by chanting at the mayor, hoping to open a window for a colleague who was recently excessed during the budget cuts to ask a question. He says security was specifically physical with him, hurting his shoulder in the process.
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