In the past couple months there have been episode after episode of bad behavior from some juveniles selling things on Whitehall’s streets. Many eye-witnessed, some issues photographed and many recounted. Despite my attempts to find solutions to this problem:
and all the eyewitnesses and calls made to Police and government, City Hall seems strangely reticent to do anything tangible about a real and simple issue affecting our neighborhoods. For now, I’ve put together all the comments on a reel to show you how minimizing to the community issue too many at City Hall have been (excepting Councilor Conison’s comment after receiving an email from me exhorting her as Chair of the Safety Committee to do something about the problems; that this is not an issue for Council, that this is a safety issue and so should be handled by the Police). Its a disrespectful slap in the face of the community who expect results from their government when issues like this come along. It does not speak well of them, particularly after asking you to reward them with extended terms…
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