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Assistant Police Chief Janeé Harteau takes to YouTube to invite people downtown
Posted by: Matt McKinney under Public safety, Urban living Updated: May 25, 2012 - 3:04 PM
With summer bearing down on us, Assistant police Chief Janeé Harteau takes a few minutes in a Youtube video to calm everyone's nerves about downtown crime. She makes the point that lots of people come and go safely. She also gives a general overview of police resources concentrated in the heart of the city.
It's an unusually public statement from the police, and could be a sign of what's to come from Harteau, who is the mayor's choice to succeed outgoing Chief Tim Dolan when he retires at year's end. When polled earlier this month, a majority of City Council members supported the nomination. Harteau has also been behind the department's push into social media.
To put summer crime in context, last year at this time a series of downtown shootings left several people in the hospital and sparked a conversation about public safety that ultimately lead to the closure of Karma, a nightclub that police deemed the source of several outbreaks of violence. The club shut down last fall. So far this year, no club has been singled out as especially problematic.
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