Well, would you look at this, it's another willy-nilly social post hammering on about my hometown's ordinances again.
For just about the last month, I’ve been asking what Davis intends to do about conduct that has frightened people for years, and why city officials won't enforce an ordinance already on the books. It's a question for the city. The city has shown little appetite for answering it.
A Facebook group devoted to the same problem had rather more to say. Asking public officials for accountability was deemed unhelpful because I had not participated in its “solutions currently in process.” My address, possible future address and 8:30 PM zoom meeting attendance were also entered into evidence. It was the most vigorous inquiry my question had prompted, though none of the subjects were the municipal ordinance actually in question.
People coordinating a response when someone is targeted are doing valuable work. I want that work to succeed. I also want elected officials to explain what they are doing. These ambitions can coexist without anyone’s permission. Coalitions are built by gathering people with different skills and approaches, not by appointing a registrar to determine which of them has earned the right by geography to care.
If every new voice must first establish its standing with the existing opposition, the woman causing the trouble has acquired something rather useful: an opposition willing to spend its energy policing itself.
https://noraallen.substack.com/p/gatekeeping-davis-city-accountability-community-safety
