I and other list members attended the third precinct meeting about how to
write neighborhood action plans for requests from the NRP Million dollar Police
fund.
I see some good things happening out of this but I just can't help noting how
truly odd this process is.
I don't know which is the best metaphor - Alice in wonderland, Superman's
Bizarro World, or the Emperors new clothes. I was thinking maybe Superman's
Bizarro world where everything is the same but different was the most apt analogy,
but I think the Emperor's new clothes is best.
Basically the NRP, Police, and neighborhood folks spent the evening talking
about our preferences of the Emperor's outfit.
Wizard wanted just the Hat (fix up Chicago and Lake)
Barb Lickness wanted the outfit to fit tighter (fit the NRP strategies)
Bob Miller gave a speech about the extra pair of Pants that could come with
the outfit (how two neighborhoods could get $ 50,000 more by working together,
{but changing the hours that equal those dollars won't occur})
I asked about when the emperor gets dressed (basically we are making
decisions about something that has already in place)
The woman next to Wizard asked how do we judge how good the fabric is? ( who
decides the quality of the outfit?)
But this whole time we all see and know that everyone else sees that the
emperor is wearing no clothes.
By the time we write an action plan with an April first deadline, all the
decisions will be made. We have three sets of bureaucracies playing this out like
it is somewhat real, but it isn't.
I think it is great that we are working with the Third Precinct to set
priorities and work together and there will be good things that come out of this,
but this process is very strange.
Thanks,
Scott Vreeland Seward, Third Precinct sector 4
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