Mayor Sam Adams has posted a seven line statement on his website about the shooting death of Aaron Campbell. You can read my feelings on his engagement on these issues in this week’s Hall Monitor column. In the mean time, I would urge you to hold our leader accountable by leaving a comment on his post.

I can assure you that he listens to citizen feedback.

There’s also a protest arranged for 10am outside the Justice Center, which I’ll be covering shortly.

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.

3 replies on “Tell The Mayor To Prioritize Police Oversight”

  1. that wasn’t a statement about Campbell; it was about the grand jury process. the killing of Aaron Campbell deserves more than an entry on a government/political blog, so i’m actually glad to see no such thing.

    and given that he’s not Police Commissioner, his reticence is probably a good thing. were he to be making strong statements that either conflicted with or overshadowed Saltzman, you’d be writing about that instead. until the Mayor takes back the Police Burueau, which, as Jesse Cornett rightly points out he never should have given up, we’ll have these problems. it’s time to put the Mayor back in charge of the City’s most critical bureau — esp given who he now has running it.

  2. Yup, tabarnhart’s got it all right. I posted much the same thing, but I think he said it better, above.

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    He’s the mayor, not a judge, not a District Attorney. He can’t just wade in to this case and start issuing orders.

    He says above that he passed a bill that will make the transcript public – that’s great. That’s what we need: more info.

    So everyone who starts out their comments with something like “I assume they didn’t talk about…” should just shut the eff up until the transcript comes out. Without information, what the heck are you talking about? Without the transcript, you’re just making up stupid stuff so that you can rail against it. It’s called a ‘straw man argument,’ look it up.

    The mayor is doing the right thing – allowing the legal system to run, and then asking for a public review their process, data, and decision. Yelling now, without data, is just stupid.

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