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Board of Police Commissioners dropped the ball, again
At Friday’s Budget Committee meeting, which was an extension of Wednesday’s Budget Committee meeting, city council decided to make a minor administrative change that will set the city up to successfully reform its police services, thanks to a motion from councillor Waye Mason. Mason argued that since public safety is more than just policing, and since the city made a commitment to public safety that it never funded, new police spending and new public safety spending should be considered at the same time as part of the same budget…