An account of Weis at the meeting of Park Manor Neighbors

I'm late on this, but the Ald. Lyle provides an account. These two paragraphs were a part of an answer to the Greater Chatham Association with regards to "dropping the ball" on Weis' visit to Chatham:

More than 200 residents attended to hear from the Supt., Commander Crump-Hale (3rd), Commander Johnson (6th), Chief E. Brown (Organized Crime), and others. After I introduced the Supt., he spoke to the group expressing his unhappiness with the increase in violent crimes in the area and explaining his plans for attacking that increase. He told them that we have been assigned additional resources through mobile units that basically stay in the Police Districts in Area Two. He stated that he was giving the Commanders greater flexibility in the assignment of their personnel to respond to community concerns. He then took questions for approximately 40 minutes. Residents complained of slow response time; that the Police allow young men to loiter (and by implication sell drugs) on the corners; the loss of a feeling that they are safe; gave the Supt. certain streets and addresses where problems occur; and in a few instances thanked the Commanders for responding to particular concerns.

On Tues. I met with 3 other Aldermen at the Superintendent’s Office for an Area Two Violence Suppression Meeting. At this meeting each of our Commanders was present. (We have 4 Districts covering the 6th Ward). Additionally, every Chief or Deputy was present to respond to our demands for more manpower, more effort, more missions, more attention on quality of life issues, etc., etc.

I think the last paragraph of this comment is interesting but I'll highlight that later.