The meeting is
at Coatesville City Hall, 1 City Hall Place, Coatesville, PA. 7:30pm.
According to
the agenda, Arvilla Hunt’s “pal” Chief Bell will be sworn in as temp. Chief.
I believe there
will also be a selection of a Chief of Police from 2 finalists. Both of
the finalists are rumored to be former City of Philadelphia police
officers.
It seems that
no Black individuals applied to be Chief of Police in Coatesville. I
believe that it's still hard for a Black man or woman to move up the chain of
command in many police departments. So there just aren't many qualified Black
men or women around for the job of Chief in Coatesville.
I don't like
the fact with the exception of Pennsylvania Cities like Philadelphia it's
difficult for non-white officers to get promotions. And in turn it’s difficult
to find qualified Black officers for the Chief of Police position in
Coatesville.
But that
doesn't mean we need to settle for an unqualified chief in order to get a
non-White chief.
For almost the
same reasons that it's difficult to find people of color for the Chief of
Police in Coatesville in suburban Pennsylvania it's hard to find a qualified
city manager that is of color.
Coatesville is
in a terrible, terrible mess. We need people of extraordinary ability that can
and have turned small towns around. That person would certainly not be someone
who can be bossed around by a city council.
It seems that
an alleged “Shadow City Council led by three Black City Council members and
several community members has been meeting since March. I believe that the
alleged “Shadow Council” has an agenda to put a Black face on the leadership in
City Government.
I live in a
part of Coatesville that has more expensive properties (for Coatesville) and
the taxes that go with expensive properties. After many years of waiting for
the “revitalization” of Coatesville my neighbors are giving up and moving out.
They are well aware that Coatesville has an exceptionally high crime rate.
Sometimes they are so desperate to get out that they don’t bother selling their
Coatesville home before they buy another.
I would be
happy to pay higher taxes to get a good Coatesville PD that can keep a lid on
our runaway crime rate here. The last thing we need here is to balance the
budget by laying off/giving early retirement to our senior and well paid police
officers. And especially laying them off all at once to get a boost for the
budget. That layoff of senior officers had to be a real profit booster for
Chester Counties drug businesses.
There are
things designed long ago like the train station that will improve the town.
Because City Council decided we don’t need many police people who ride the
train from Coatesville will have to put up with being mugged.
We don't have
the luxury of diddling with a Coatesville City Council run by blowhards with
crony agendas and zero ability and zero knowledge of municipal government We need a
Coatesville City Council who will work to get our city out of the terrible mess
it's in.
The last mostly
Black Coatesville City Government here in Coatesville brought disaster and
sorrow to the people of Coatesville. That mostly Black led Coatesville
Government came about with the election of the “Bloc of Four”.
To my knowledge
Mr. “John Birch Society” Sellers went around Coatesville interviewing mostly
Black people with the qualities he desired. I believe he selected Black people
who had the best chance of failing miserably once they were in office. I heard
him giggle when he said, “I wouldn’t have believed that Patsy Ray could
actually win her election.”
See:
I can imagine
that Pat was filled with pride when he heard that his personally selected and
promoted Black-led government let their town nearly burn down. I can imagine
him bragging to all of his White Nationalists friends.
