We thought we’d give you another update on the status of the pledge we asked your Councilmembers to sign to recommit to making public safety their top priority.
The scorecard as of our last post: Mayor Reed and seven Councilmembers signed on; Councilmemer Oliverio abstained; and Councilmembers Herrera and Liccardo had not responded.
We’re happy to announce that Councilmember Herrera’s office called to let us know she will make signing the pledge one of her first acts when the Council returns from their Summer recess.
We also saw that Councilmember Oliverio mentioned the pledge in his blog on another website. He explained that he doesn’t sign pledges for interest groups because he doesn’t want to promise anything he may not be able to deliver.
I understand where he’s coming from. But an overwhelming majority of San Jose’s residents regularly list public safety as their top priority. Are the people of San Jose an interest group?
We’re only asking our leaders to reflect the support our public safety officers receive from the community. It’s a pledge of principle.
Later on in his blog, Pierluigi mentions that he’s already got his own public safety pledge posted on his city website. We went there and looked around but couldn’t find it. Maybe he’ll post a link in his blog today. We’ll let you know.
P.S. In case you were wondering, Councilmember Liccardo still has yet to respond.
Monday, August 3, 2009
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Right on, Bobby.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Pierluigi will figure out if the city actually makes important things like public safety a priority it will help him make his case that they should stop funding golf courses and other low priority crap.
No answer is an answer. Liccardo is just blowing you off and hopes you'll go a way. How did he get into office any way?
ReplyDeleteI'll make a pledge to NOT re-elect those who don't support public safety, right here and right now! SJPD is now an interest group? Pleeeease!! I guess if your not interested in keeping yur constituants safe, or your car stereo, keep on waffling Pierluigi! See where it gets you!!
ReplyDeleteWho else is in?
Let's see if the voive of the voters changes their minds! Make these council members rebember that they are ELECTED to their cushy positions to execute the will of the people, an keeping us safe is the number 1 priority!
Be safe officers!!!
Liccardo with the help of Chamber and Silicon Vally Leadership got into office not because he was good but because Labor ran Manny Diaz in 2006 labor election disaster where labor's endrsement ment they lost
ReplyDeleteLabor got overconfident and like Republicans ran candidates who's main qualification was they would do what they were told and never questioned policies no matter how bad they were for public and taxpayers so they lost many elections
What's up with Liccardo?
ReplyDeleteCan you offer him a blog day to explain?
Dear Anonymous #4:
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, Manny Diaz had SJPOA's endorsement as well. You criticize labor as "overconfident" in running "candidates who's [sic] main qualification was that they would do what they were told...."
....and so what are we to make of those who sign this "pledge"?
City's like organizations should have goals. This pledge is more a goal than a political promise, although I can see how people can get confused.
ReplyDeleteWithout goals, organizations languish. That's true of corporations and cities.
A public safety goal is probably the most sensible one a city could have. First, the citizens list it as the top priority. Second, once a city loses its rep for being safe everything else goes south fast. Look at Oakland.
Thanks to the city council members who were willing to sign a pledge to public safety. It was refreshing to at least have them acknowledge and reaffirm their commitment to the police officers. Sometimes as an officer on the street there appears to be a major disconnect between the city council, city manager and what the reality is of police work at the street level, thus their pledge to public safety was a good symbolic gesture to the officers and was good for officer morale which is not too high currently.
ReplyDeleteI really do not understand the council members who refused to sign the pledge. It frankly seems ridiculous. As an officer, I have never viewed my job as being part of a special interest group. My job is to do the best I can to keep people safe from criminals. We take a beating in the media with very little mention of the great police work being done. I felt that those council members willing to sign the pledge was an acknowledgement of the good work and that they saw beyond the slanted and one sided view of the media. I lost respect for those council members who refused to make this simple gesture so they could be politically correct.