… then why don’t they just do that? None of this requires this show. Which is really all it is… a big public display with minimal actual impact.

They could solve it tomorrow at 8am. Tell the DPW they don’t need details, tell utilities to put up road closed signs and close the block and boom… done. Suddenly there’s few if any details needed.

Then cut the police budget by a few dozen million and pink slip a bunch of cops. It’s been done before and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING stopping them from doing that. Literally… NOTHING. That decision is 100% theirs and they can do it with no outside input. Not one thing is stopping them from laying off half the PD if that is their goal. Just to repeat it for you… nothing has delayed that option since Wu took office. There is nothing delaying it as there is a supermajority and no boogeyman to prevent this decision from occurring. It would require nothing more than the desire to do so.

They could do it now… they could have done it yesterday… but they won’t. Because that’s not actually their goal and they know that puts them in the fast lane to getting replaced next election. So they ain’t gonna do it.

So try again as to what the actual goal is.