Here's a transcript of the prepared speech former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson delivered Wednesday.
We also made our expectations clear that first responders are to utilize their training and experience in providing for the protection of those they encounter. That progress, too, has been reversed, as reflected recently by the failure of two police officers to provide any aid whatsoever for a man, Ryan Outlaw, who was bleeding to death while the officers waited over 8 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
That’s an entirely unacceptable “goal” for emergency calls to the police —and is among the least ambitious of goals by police departments in the state of Utah. Chris Bertram, the former deputy chief of Unified Police Department, has said that a 10-minute goal “scares” him because one of his children lives in Salt Lake City. He has said a 10-minute goal is “not an expectation that the public should have.
With far more officers and far greater expense, the police response times are more than double what they were when Chris Burbank and I worked together. In one news report, Matt Evans, a retired SLCPD sergeant, said he has left Salt Lake City because of the city’s high crime and the inability of the Police Department to respond quickly.
When someone very dear to me was addicted to a terrible drug, she was headed toward the destruction of her life and her relationships. She got treatment and stopped taking the drug only after she was arrested and required to get treatment as a condition to avoiding more involvement in the criminal justice system. It transformed her life and her relationships.
As I did before — which is quite the opposite of what we see from the current administration — my administration and I, personally, will be open and entirely accessible to the people of our city, not only meeting one-on-one on a regular basis with community members and promptly returning phone calls and correspondence, but also, as before, holding monthly open “Saturday Meetings With the Mayor” at local businesses, attended by heads of all city departments, and monthly evening press and...
We created and grew the first citywide after-school and summer program, YouthCity, which has enriched thousands of lives, and aided many families, ever since. We did all that we did in a fiscally responsible manner, never raising property taxes during my eight years in office — in contrast to the recent 4.9% increase in property taxes at the behest of the current mayor, who often seems to have no fiscal restraint.
Inclusiveness and the valuing of diversity was core to virtually everything we did.
When we were faced with a public health problem with the original magnificent Seven Canyons Fountain at Liberty Park, we raised the money and solved the problem, opening the popular fountain to the public. In the past several years, the Seven Canyons Fountain has been closed, with interminable delays by two administrations and hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on bureaucratic nonsense and expensive consultants.
We also made our expectations clear that first responders are to utilize their training and experience in providing for the protection of those they encounter. That progress, too, has been reversed, as reflected recently by the failure of two police officers to provide any aid whatsoever for a man, Ryan Outlaw, who was bleeding to death while the officers waited over eight minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
It took police and outrageous 28 minutes to respond to a 911 call about a suspected rape in progress. In another instance, an emergency call was made regarding an assault on an elderly woman. You can hear the women’s cries on the recording of the 911 call. The dispatcher said, “It looks like I do have officers on the way.
Yet the response times are more than double what they were when Chris Burbank and I worked together. In one news report, Matt Evans, a retired SLCPD sergeant, said he has left Salt Lake City because of the city’s high crime and the inability of the Police Department to respond quickly. I initially ran for Salt Lake City mayor because I was passionate about the changes we could make — in environmental programs, policing and public safety, affordable housing, long-term community planning, the valuing of diversity, youth programs, restorative justice, community-building, and combating sprawl, pollution and corruption.
When someone very dear to me was addicted to a terrible drug, she was headed toward the destruction of her life and her relationships. She got treatment and stopped taking the drug only after she was arrested and required to get treatment as a condition to avoiding more involvement in the criminal justice system. It transformed her life and her relationships.
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