[Neighbors] E-Bikes for APD

[Meta Hirschl]

Meta Hirschl
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must never be a time when we fail to protest.* -Elie Wiesel


On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 3:21 PM Shani via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Tax payers.  Of course volunteer citizens are doing more and more (along
> with non-profits) to make up for lack of government services in general,
> but basically yes. These services should be paid for like police are paid
> for because they are necessary.  It can also be cheaper than law
> enforcement. For example, a cop kicking someone out of a retail businesses’
> bathroom costs the taxpayer. That same cop could be fighting crime while a
> lower-paid government employee could be maintaining a public restroom.
>
> On Mar 23, 2024, at 2:17 PM, Susan Peroutka via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
> neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>  This is intriguing.
>
> Would you form a citizens committee to clean the toilets and showers and
> sweep the used needles off the sidewalks?
>
> Or do you propose that tax dollars pay for the ongoing maintenance?
>
> Just curious.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 23, 2024, at 1:29 PM, Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
> neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>  Meta,
>
> Yes, so obvious - get support to where the people who are in need rather
> than police round them up and carry them out next to the sewage plant by
> Double Eagle airport.
>
> Has everyone gone out and looked where and how the city treats the
> unhouse?  It is disgusting.  No wonder the unhoused want to be in livable
> areas.  They deserve respect too.
>
> Why is Mayor Keller and the council not taking this up?
>
> Bob
>
> _________________________________________________________________________________
>
> On Mar 23, 2024, at 8:08 AM, Meta Hirschl <metaji.prajna at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mobile shower/toilet facilities and portables seem like really good
> options  -  wonder if anyone: city, state, local nonprofits, etc are
> working on this?
>
> Such obvious human needs to be met.
>
> We all see daily the result of not providing that to our unhoused citizen
> neighbors.
>
> I understand there are challenges making these services available and also
> know there are solutions.
>
> Meta.
>
> Meta Hirschl
> *There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there
> must never be a time when we fail to protest.* -Elie Wiesel
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
> <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> Dan touched on something about this.  What we need here is for APD to
>> visibly park at random times, even if on lunch break, the black/white
>> patrol vehicles on the side streets along Lead and Coal.  This would help
>> with speeders and reckless drivers.  I bet they could issue a lot of
>> citations that way.
>>
>> I saw on Ch 7 last night how Santa Fe is helping with the unhoused
>> problem by providing mobile shower/toilet facilities.  It was a grant from
>> the state health department that made the money available to a community
>> group to run the project.  Sandia Toyota when they did the big remodel had
>> portable toilet facilities for customers.  We could have some of them
>> around here which would obviously help.  Better to spend money on things
>> like that than electric bicycles, imo.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2024, at 7:21 PM, Weiser Dan via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
>> neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>> I should clarify my response.  I am concerned E-Bikes will contribute to
>> our police officers being in poorer physical shape and less able to
>> apprehend potentially dangerous suspects around ABQ.  The cost of the
>> E-Bikes is a concern as well as the problems with so many E-Bikes "Catching
>> Fire" which is why they have been seen as "problematic around the USA."
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 07:07:48 PM MDT, J. Smith via
>> Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This week, APD announced that they acquired two (2) electric-powered
>> bikes for the downtown patrol. Is this something the Nob Hill Community
>> could support in buying and donating similar bikes for our local APD patrol?
>>
>> JS
>>
>>
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