Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Reinventing the Wheel?
Supervisors Daly and Maxwell are pushing to have a measure on the ballot that would set aside $5mil for spending on youth crime prevention, the Examiner reports.
Gee, think anyone will vote against that? of course not.
At first, I was thinking, 'well, their finally thinking about the root of the problem'... then I started thinking about the different programs that are already out there (and struggling for funding).. do you think these Supes don't know about these programs? do they think they aren't doing enough? There's great people doing really good work at places like the Safety Network Program and SF Safe and specific ones in District 5 like Ella Hill Hutch's Henderson Program
There's some new stuff in this idea.. bringing survivors of violent crime to the table and having youth advocates be part of the planning process... but the main part, the money part, sounds just like these others:
"The $5 million set aside in the measure would go toward programs such as conflict resolution, mediation, job development and mental health and substance abuse treatment."
So it really starts looking like Supervisors just sort of read the paper, get upset, and try and invent some new solution... it would really help if our leaders knew about, and supported some of the current stuff already going on.
And heck, if you're going to put stuff on the ballot, why not work with the other supervisors who are talking about stronger gun control, Gonzalez and Sandoval?
Supervisors Daly and Maxwell are pushing to have a measure on the ballot that would set aside $5mil for spending on youth crime prevention, the Examiner reports.
Gee, think anyone will vote against that? of course not.
At first, I was thinking, 'well, their finally thinking about the root of the problem'... then I started thinking about the different programs that are already out there (and struggling for funding).. do you think these Supes don't know about these programs? do they think they aren't doing enough? There's great people doing really good work at places like the Safety Network Program and SF Safe and specific ones in District 5 like Ella Hill Hutch's Henderson Program
There's some new stuff in this idea.. bringing survivors of violent crime to the table and having youth advocates be part of the planning process... but the main part, the money part, sounds just like these others:
"The $5 million set aside in the measure would go toward programs such as conflict resolution, mediation, job development and mental health and substance abuse treatment."
So it really starts looking like Supervisors just sort of read the paper, get upset, and try and invent some new solution... it would really help if our leaders knew about, and supported some of the current stuff already going on.
And heck, if you're going to put stuff on the ballot, why not work with the other supervisors who are talking about stronger gun control, Gonzalez and Sandoval?
