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DESCRIPTION:The phony "Public Safety" crisis has spawned a "Task Force" which is likely 
 to escalate rather than dissolve the false issues raised by Take Back Santa 
 Cruz [TBSC] and The Clean Team [TCT]\n\nNEEDLE-MANIA\nIt was created in 
 response to TBSC and TCT's manufactured public alarm.  This was created by 
 regularly bringing improperly disposed of needles to City Council (less 
 than 800 compared with the 250,000 turned in to Needle Exchange last year) 
 and releasing scare videos of abandoned campsites & fecal debris. \n\nThe 
 hysteria created has already prompted City Council to close the City's only 
 Needle Exchange program on Barson St., ironically making more improper 
 needle disposal a near-certainty.\n\nThey did this behind closed doors with 
 no public input and no advance notice.\n\nNo  City Council members have 
 acted or made public statements opposing this true Public Safety crisis 
 which City Council itself created.\n\nMISLEADING POLICE 
 CHEER-LEADING\n\nPolice officials have signed on to this deception, 
 concealing the fact that there was no rise in crime at the Needle Exchange 
 location & no additional needles improperly disposed of.  \n\nChief Vogel 
 and Deputy-Chief Clark have also misled the community by not countering 
 inflammatory nearly-daily Sentinel "crime in our community" stories.  The 
 crime rate in Santa Cruz, particularly violent crime, has not risen.  
 \n\nThey've also signed on to the "blame the homeless" bedtime story, but 
 neglected to mention that it's the SCPD's own decision to enforce non-crime 
 crimes (like sitting near a building, sleeping, and personal drug use) that 
 have padded these stats.\n\nCITY COUNCIL COVERING ITS OWN FAILURES\n\nTake 
 Back Santa Cruz and the Clean Team have got one thing right:  the City has 
 refused to both clean up environmental messes and/or provide the 1500-2000 
 homeless people who have shelter with campgrounds, trash pickups, Sharps 
 containers, and other obvious sanitary needs.\n\nThe Task Force is also 
 designed to cover the ass of the City Council and City Staff and forward 
 the agenda of reactionary Council members Lynn Robinson and Pamela Comstock 
 who seek to "purify" the community by demonizing the homeless and cutting 
 back the pathetically limited homeless services.\n\nComstock is co-founder 
 of the rabidly anti-homeless TBSC, which poses as a "Public Safety" group.  
 \n\nFor more extensive description and  discussion,  go 
 to\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/07/18736444.php \n\nThis item 
 was posted by Robert Norse, but Scott Collins is the City staff person who 
 will presumably be recording it and providing staff assistance.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/07/18736454.php
SUMMARY:Public Hysteria Task Force meeting
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium at Center and Church Streets, Tony Hill Room
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/07/18736454.php
DTSTART:20130508T010000Z
DTEND:20130508T030000Z
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