Let's keep the conversations about the future of community safety going.
So far, this summer and early fall, I have been able to participate in a number
of very deep, nuanced, important conversations about the future of community
safety in our city. Some of the best were by special invitations with small
groups of neighbors in their backyards or nearby patch of public green space.
Other powerful conversations happened more recently during National Night Out
parties. These small gatherings showed me that valuable small in-person
discussions can be accomplished using COVID 19 safety precautions.
Now, as fall is upon us, I want to have more of these discussions, at the same
small scale, block by block.
To do that I need your help.
If you live in Ward 2 and would like to co-host a conversation with me on your
block, (apartment building or area) please email my Policy Aide Robin Garwood
at <email obscured><mailto:robin.garwood@minneapolismn.gov>.
Please share your name, what block you live on, and a few dates and times that
would work well for your block.
These block events are an opportunity for people to ask me questions about
what's happening about community safety in Minneapolis, and for us to ask each
other about our ideas, feelings, and hopes for what public safety in our city
should look like and could look like in the future.
These kinds of small discussions allow us to really listen to each other, to
understand and to hear how much we share. In this time, when it is easy to see
the large divides between us about policing and public safety, I believe that
there is a deeper consensus that also needs to be found, focused on and built
upon. By opening our minds and opening our hearts to each other we can take the
next steps together to keep us all safe now and make sure we are all safer into
the future.
If you want to help and be a part of this, please reach out to me or Robin.
This will help me do my work and, hopefully, help us all move towards the more
just and peaceful City we want for everyone.
Cam Gordon
So far, this summer and early fall, I have been able to participate in a number
of very deep, nuanced, important conversations about the future of community
safety in our city. Some of the best were by special invitations with small
groups of neighbors in their backyards or nearby patch of public green space.
Other powerful conversations happened more recently during National Night Out
parties. These small gatherings showed me that valuable small in-person
discussions can be accomplished using COVID 19 safety precautions.
Now, as fall is upon us, I want to have more of these discussions, at the same
small scale, block by block.
To do that I need your help.
If you live in Ward 2 and would like to co-host a conversation with me on your
block, (apartment building or area) please email my Policy Aide Robin Garwood
at <email obscured><mailto:robin.garwood@minneapolismn.gov>.
Please share your name, what block you live on, and a few dates and times that
would work well for your block.
These block events are an opportunity for people to ask me questions about
what's happening about community safety in Minneapolis, and for us to ask each
other about our ideas, feelings, and hopes for what public safety in our city
should look like and could look like in the future.
These kinds of small discussions allow us to really listen to each other, to
understand and to hear how much we share. In this time, when it is easy to see
the large divides between us about policing and public safety, I believe that
there is a deeper consensus that also needs to be found, focused on and built
upon. By opening our minds and opening our hearts to each other we can take the
next steps together to keep us all safe now and make sure we are all safer into
the future.
If you want to help and be a part of this, please reach out to me or Robin.
This will help me do my work and, hopefully, help us all move towards the more
just and peaceful City we want for everyone.
Cam Gordon
