Good NAtured to host Houseless Open Forums
l3wis I guess I am not the only who thought the last forum was nothing more than a theatrical performance;
Homeless
Sioux Falls Homeless Forum
I was surprised this was filmed, but after watching I realized that it was a live streaming event on SDPTV, so why didn’t the city livestream on FB and in YT? It often baffles me that the city will hold these live forums or debates and instead of livestreaming in YouTube they record and post later? WHY?! And why did we only get a day notice of the event? It was said during the event that this was in planning for weeks. Also, the moderator, Lori Walsh from SDPTV was only asking the questions sent to her from the audience on TV and in the crowd. Pastor Poops and her clashed when she asked why we can’t go to other communities for solutions, and it was his theme of the evening, blame others, point fingers at others, too big of a problem for him to solve then lastly ignore it because it is NOT my job. He went on to complain that many of these service providers are not sharing data with the SFPD. Why would they? There are Federal laws about peeps personal data and if you are seeking to acquire information about a certain individual you need to go to a judge and get a warrant. Does this guy even understand personal privacy? Just because you are living on the streets or a shelter doesn’t mean the same Federal laws don’t apply to you. It amazed me that most of the panel knew what they were talking about, even the DSS Secretary, Altoff, who tried to cover up sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese years ago, knew what he was talking about. Karksy and Poops, not so much. Paul has this attitude that if it is a problem to big for him to solve, he walks away. Pretty sad for a person who is supposed to be running our city. Still find it ironic when he was running for his first term he told the crowd at Democratic Forum he was going to close the Dudley house because he would solve homelessness in Sioux Falls. As I looked around the crowd, I wasn’t the only one laughing. While I agree with his stance now that this is NOT a problem you solve but manage, you have to at least be doing one of those things, and he is doing neither.
Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken continues his closed government idiocy
Boy the hits keep a coming;
While I totally support this forum, I am not sure what Dean Karsky and Poops are going to contribute? That they have virtually done nothing about the issue? But what is even more intriguing is how they rolled this out. I asked two journalists today about when this was originally announced. Both said today, but one said he did know on Monday because he knew someone involved in its production. So you were organizing an event and didn’t bother to tell the public until the day before? Seriously? Don’t think this was an after thought or done by mistake, when you tell people about an event 24 hours before that event it is pretty clear to me you don’t want the public to show up. While I get many orgs were notified, why not notify the people who are affected? THE PUBLIC! Would love to go to this, but it is at an awful time, and since I just learned about it I could not plan for it. Poops, you keep crying about public engagement but at every corner you kick us in the face. Prime example here. I tell folks in the community that you best get used to the panhandlers and homeless because the current administration(s) don’t have the solution or care.
Sioux Falls to host a homeless forum
Maybe they will come to the conclusion we need to send thousands of more dollars to Poops former(?) ad agency to tell people how to ignore the homeless problem. Maybe more 0% interest rates for wealthy historical homeowners is the answer? I think some of those Queen Anne and Victorians could hold quite a few transients.
It was only a matter of time
I warned some city councilors several months ago that with the increase of transients in Sioux Falls, things like this would occur;
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A 32-year-old Sioux Falls man has now been indicted on murder charges after a man he allegedly assaulted passed away from his injuries.
Robin Swallow was indicted by the Minnehaha County State’s Attorney’s Office on Wednesday for murder in the first degree and one alternative count of murder in the second degree.
The incident occurred on September 22 near 12th Street and Cleveland Avenue in Sioux Falls.
A group of people were drinking in an area of trees when an altercation occurred.
A 64-year-old man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and Swallow was arrested for aggravated assault, kidnapping, robbery and a parole violation.
The victim has been identified as Michael Raymond Colvin of Sioux Falls. Police said Colvin was hospitalized for several weeks and ultimately passed away. After an autopsy, Colvin’s death was ruled a homicide.
The troubling part is what if an innocent bystander happened upon this? Would they have been safe? The ‘transient’ problem we have in Sioux Falls isn’t just about addicts wandering our streets aimlessly it’s about a city government and police department that have stood their ground in NOT helping to MANAGE the issue, and also NOT filling us in. Why does the SFPD have a public information officer if that officer doesn’t tell us anything?!
It’s time the City Council had a serious working session to discuss a long term strategy on how to MANAGE the issue before more people end up dead.