Post-shooting press conferences
Am I the only one feeling genuinely outraged every time I see Todd Gloria and or the police chief getting in front of the press cameras to talk about the mosque shooting?
They both talk about the amazing great job that they did and are doing in response to the threat and subsequent shooting. But realistically, what did they actually do? They've set up many flock cameras and paid an exorbitant price for that; it's mass surveillance without good justification. Thank goodness with two hours advance notice your sophisticated surveillance program that costs a ton of money sent your officers to Fashion Valley Mall.
While you were at Fashion Valley Mall, the suspects attacked the mosque. They ended themselves before your officers were even on scene. So, remind me again what exactly they did that deserve such congratulations and justifies all these costs?
How about, instead of cutting the budgets for arts, parks and recreation, and a bunch of other things to try to balance a seriously broken budget, you focus on, I don't know, cutting some of the services that the police are using which waste money and have no good results.
And please stop with the press conferences where you talk about what an amazing job you are doing when you are literally doing nothing useful. Sorry about the rant. Ugh.