Campaign Videos
Here I post videos of me speaking extemporaneously about topics relevant to the job of Police District Council member.
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12–12–22
My first campaign video! Here I introduce myself, explaining why I am running for Chicago Police District #24 Council. I also briefly describe this new Police District Council system. Please don't ask me why my hand is shaking, but it is not Parkinson's!
12–17–22
I offer a suggestion for improving the coordination between policing and other support services, such as mental health. I suggest that all police and police recruits should receive substantial training about the available services in the city for individuals or families who are at at-risk or troubled. In addition, every police district out to have a full-time case manager whose job it is to refer such individuals or families to appropriate city services.
1–8–23
I suggest that local district police councils should work to tailor policing strategies and the reporting of crime statistics to the concerns of residents in the local neighborhoods. Too many decisions are made at "headquarters." Policing, like many other issues in our society, suffers from a "pathology of over-centralization."
1–10–23
I take on the very contentious issue of the Chicago "gang database", and offer a good example of what I mean by my "out-of-the-box moderation," and my "bold independence." If we reduce this issue to a simple question of "for or against the gang database," we will get nowhere. Many candidates for Police District Council would not touch it with a ten foot pole. But I take it head on.
1–19–23
Many people are arguing that to reduce the crime rate in Chicago and the USA, we must address the "root causes" of crime. For some reason, current public discourse is leaving out one of the leading root causes of crime: culture, especially thought of in moral terms. The moral culture problem in our society is not specific to one social class or to the "inner city." It is society wide.
I1–26–23
o provide the best oversight of the police, we must find the right mix of expert insider knowledge, together with perspectives of those who have dealt with the police from other sides.
2–5–23
Thinking specifically of the Chicago Police Department, I have a suggestion on how to build trust between community residents and the police. We need to give police more of a sense of responsible ownership over their actions, rather than pile on protocols and micromanage them, as if we were programming robots. People do not put their trust in robots; they put their trust in people.