Carl's makes great burritos as well

>"It's very difficult to find the right balance between supporting families and being present, and reaching out with services and support behind closed doors, rather than running in front of cameras — that actually retraumatizes and elevates experiences that families don't want to live through ever again"

That's is Wu's opinion - clearly the community feels differently.

>I see one quote from one person, not "the black community" that she very obviously isn't ignoring. Nice try though

So we need to get every single black person's opinion on how Wu is handling public safety in their communities before we can make any conclusions? Rev. Eugene Rivers is clearly a leader in the community and infinitely more connected with its residents than you are. It is wildly inappropriate (and borderline paternalistic) to think you know better than a community leader.

The fact is Wu drastically underperformed among the Black community compared to Marty Walsh (let alone Janey) - that is not conjecture. Even in her city councilor days, the Black community did not feel like Wu advocated for or represented them:

>Walsh’s support is strongest in Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park and Dorchester neighborhoods generally to the west of Dorchester Avenue, where 54 percent of respondents said they’d likely support him and just 16 percent said they’d likely support Wu.

The fact is the black community at large feels ignored by Wu. You can't hand wave this away and tell them how they "should feel".

Let me correct you - members of the community directly impacted by violence feel that Wu is ignoring the violence problem. Their concerns are exacerbated by the fact that Wu has yet to show her face in these communities and instead offers Twitter platitudes.

But please continue to tell the Black community how they should feel about a mayor who won't even do the bare minimum to engage with them.

Generally I would agree with you, but when the impacted community is actively asking you to show your face, it no longer becomes "political optics". They clearly feel ignored by Wu, and if it makes them feel seen for her to show up more frequently, then she should strive to do that. It's a low effort way for her to engage with the community in a way they have specifically requested.

Clearly there is something she can do - the impacted communities feel like they are being ignored by Wu when it comes to public safety:

>"She has been (missing in action) on this issue," the Rev. Eugene Rivers said Wednesday. "We're asking Mayor Wu, you have to be leadership for all of the city. You can't ignore the Black community."
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>Some of Wu's critics have said they do not regularly see her or Boston police Commissioner Michael Cox at major crime scenes, unlike their predecessors.

She should at least show her face when somebody is gunned down for the 7th time in less than 3 months. Easier to just tweet out condolences than actually be out in the community I guess.

Relax dude - I referenced the exact source, which made it sound like the 5 dispatchers "on loan" were part of the 21 total, with 3 "additional" dispatchers in training. Blame the reporter for being ambiguous.

It doesn't matter if they have 5 dispatchers or 50 if they can't run a normal schedule for 3+ years. The number is irrelevant.

Imagine simping for the MBTA in 2023.

Cool, so we should be back to a regular schedule, right? I mean it has been over a year.

Oh we're not? And we won't be until July 2024, per the MBTA's own dashboard?

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023-02-01_sd22-6_cap6_redacted.pdf

Sorry for not giving the MBTA the benefit of the doubt, they definitely deserve it after the stellar service they've provided - a train hasn't caught fire in months! Running reduced service for only 3 years should be celebrated!

"In June, when the FTA published interim findings of its safety probe, the operations control center had only 15 rapid transit dispatchers total."

"As of Friday, the operations control center had 21 permanent heavy-rail dispatchers employed, five who were performing those duties while “on loan” from other MBTA departments, and another three in training"

So they have 21 now, 5 of whom are on loan. 21 - 5 = 16. They had 15 before, meaning they've only hired one new person.

They've literally hired one new dispatcher. It took them a year to do it.

They went from 15 to 16.

This is why everyone thinks the MBTA is a sad joke.

According to the dashboard, they are not planning to be fully staffed in the Control center until July 2024:

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023-02-01_sd22-6_cap6_redacted.pdf

That is crazy - we have another year and a half minimum of reduced schedule trains (after already dealing with this for a year).

At least they're transparent about how badly they've fucked up.