I agree that the process looks like a farce, but the community councils themselves are a farce. If community boards are unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable, and unrepresentative of the community, then community councils are an even worse example of the same things.

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> NYPD brass gave the precinct council president a handful of prewritten interview questions to choose from, according to Aviles, and police did not allow follow-up or clarifying questions to candidates.

I would love to see a list of these softball questions, lmao

>the community councils themselves are a farce.

An even bigger farce is the "build the block" meetings with sector NCOs.

It’s not a political issue . There should be no outside influence . Appointments should be made on seniority , and experience along with demonstrated ability

Would local residents be expected to have a say in who gets chosen as a Captain or Chief in their local firehouse, or principal in the local school?

Having more accountability in the police department is one thing, but you can't possibly expect a group of people with absolutely zero connection to a profession to affect decisions like this.

I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

“Should be “ the people that would bother to get involved are usually just being exploited by some shady MF usually in the name of god

Worth pointing out that in many communties, e.g. on Long Island, local residents choose their board of fire commissioners and their school board, including the superintendent.

“More community input” is an easy “win” for politicians because it sounds good in theory but often adds little or makes things actively worse.

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Well no shit lol

Poor and black communities can stay muted and say thank you if the police show up at all

White rich communities fund the politicians who appoint NYPD brass

Is this really news for NYC?

You're right, I live on Long Island and am involved with the fire departments out here so I know all about the nonsense of commissioner elections. The thing is, comparing a seat on a school board or fire district commission to the positions I mentioned isn't really fair. Would be like comparing the board of directors at a hospital to the head of specific departments. I get what you're getting at though.

The implication here sounds like there are no rich or middle class black people. Which is not true and racist

It's all a farce. They don't listen to the the committee education councils either. Ours has a no vote of confidence on the district Superintendent because he ignores and lies about basing decisions on community input. School district 15 principal is accusee of gross mismanagement and gets sent to the district office. Politics trump's what the community wants.

Have you seen the ethnicity of Adams administration?

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Have you read the article?

You’re the only one bringing race into this. Stop projecting.

Whoa look another white dude who says race doesn't matter. How original

Until he busts out the race based stereotypes like Asians study better and black people hate education 😂

Keep it up champ. Ur doing great

You’re the only one saying racist things here.

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