Chattanooga, TN was pretty bad.
1. Police where crime is
I did notice that Kingfish thanked the current mayor for allowing the data out that supported the reporting. Progress?
Yeah, that worked out so well with the Convention & Visitors Bureau. **
Not while the leaders of the city block actual things that work and throw out deflecting blame and fear mongering. All the while grabbing their cash under the table.
I've been to Chattanooga 3 times and loved it.
I think that pay will need to be a factor as well. I know that there are few "good" candidates who will apply for what they pay and what is expected from them. I do think that Capitol Police pay better, so they have found a model that ups pay and seemingly has a funding source. No idea what that is. Ultimately, there is a huge chicken/egg issue with a completely eroded tax base leaving little to work with. There is far too much infrastructure. If there were a way to magically shrink the City footprint, consolidate neighborhoods into places that are still decent and focus both infrastructure and police spending in those smaller areas, perhaps things could get under control and move in the right direction again.
It's hard to see now, but at the time it was proposed, I think that it could have been a totally different downtown if the City had a brain in its head and instead of trying to directly profit from it, had a little vision for what it could indirectly bring in.
heading back in a few weeks. will stay/eat downtown, hike some, etc. I'm a fan.
That's kind of my point. Done right, of course it could have been a success. But City of Jackson just refuses to have good things and insists on being a dangerous run-down dump.
My understanding is that the grifter in power at the time insisted on a straight % cut of ticket sales for it to be downtown. There are so many common sense reasons that is a bad idea that it defies logic.
My current opinion of the mayor is good. Obviously thats a very limited set of data but i think he is making good moves.
Pay will absolutely be a factor which means you have to take care of the actual people paying taxes FIRST.
I'm gonna go with "much better than before" and work my way to "good" if warranted. I've been around the area since the mid-70's so I'm very Missouri on these things. I recall Frank Melton speaking once at HindsCC in the late 80's and I thought he did a great job/was right on point, then I watched his mayoral progress turn into a dumpster fire...
This is going to be controversial. It shouldn't be because its the truth.
Not really sure what happened to Frank. Seemed like he was doing a good job with crime and then he decided to go all Action Jackson.
Any comparison of Jackson and Chattanooga is, uh....flawed. What's considered bad in Chattanooga is a normal day in Jack-hole.
.....then nothing else matters. Mississippians by and large just do not value an urban center. Or they just don't realize that they need to.
That won't do a damned thing. That's all been tried, Frank Melton anyone? And let's not pretend that you give a flying 17 about the people where the crime is.
Its pretty simple. Mississippians value safety more than they value downtown Jackson. And they are correct.
Youa are still a moron. Its worked every where its been done. Like actually been done.
Americans love rules and laws, but many of them hate seeing them enforced.
Exhibit A
Yep, or they love voting for "critical" policies as long as said policies have to be managed by someone other than themselves
