I'm not big on speculating, but the Dallas police chief has to be a little nervous if she wants to keep her job. Chief U. ReneĆ© Hall hasn't ever seemed to fully have the trust of this council or this mayor, going back to last year when murders and violent crime spiked. She came up with a violent crime plan to curb such actions; it hasn't worked. Perhaps improving public safety requires more than just police response. A year later, in late May, her department was clearly in disarray during the first weekend of protests, as I described last week. The council's public safety committee questioned her this week. They didn't hold back. Two members—Omar Narvaez and Adam Medrano—outright said they had lost trust in the police chief. The rest of the committee, which would be a majority of the full Council, had serious questions about the police chief's leadership. And then, on Friday, committee chair Adam McGough triggered a performance review of the city manager, the police chief's boss. All of this is parliamentary, but its underpinnings are clear. Chief Hall now has sights on her. The investigation report the police department performed assessing its failures during the first weekend of protests didn't do enough for the council. It found that communication among the cops was poor, and the command structure was unclear. Chief Hall's whereabouts are a mystery in the report. "I was everywhere," she said during the meeting. In being everywhere, it sounds like she was nowhere. Orders were not clearly passed down to those who would be carrying them out, leading some to take on responsibilities they were not prepared for. Department leaders "appeared unsure as to the best tactics during officer/protester encounters." "Over and over again, the evidence shows an unacceptable lack of strategy and planning," said McGough. "It shows misplaced trust and a lack of clarity for our officers and for our protesters." Does Hall still have support of her department? She says she does. She's also dealing with a violent year: murders are about on pace to meet last year's count, which were the most in a decade. Aggravated assaults not between family members were up by 30 percent through July. The Council has made clear they believe it Hall's duty to curb these things. She has called for more support services to meet the needs of the communities where these crimes are occurring. People need hope. And jobs and mental health services and transportation and food. When those things don't exist, violence can boil over. Police are, by their nature, reactive. Getting the Council to accept that fact has been difficult for her. And now, the poor reaction to the protests has them questioning her competency leading the police department of the ninth largest city in America. The calls for Hall's job haven't been as loud as those in Austin, where Council came close to firing Chief Brian Manley in the wake of similar leadership failures in responding to protests. But now that the Council has opened that door, it will be curious to see whether her boss walks through it. | 
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Here's the problem:Does the nig mayor replace her with another nig?Maybe not.Just possibly they pull a "Bottoms"--like in Atlanta--insert a White(with zero authority),let them fail and go back to black.It's a sham black game,designed to not solve anything,but perpetuate and keep blacks in powerful offices(like mayor,chief and city manager).Blacks in government are so "in over their heads" in solving black crime and running a city,that status quo is all they seek.
Why Whites--65% of Dallas--don't unite to vote in some real change of philosophy(and color) to its political officeholders--change that might get blacks to move out--I don't understand.
--GRA
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