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Tough to coat this one with any sugar folks: Today we open with the news that our one competent city executive, Superintendent Rachel Monárrez, will be “going, going, back back to Cali” like Biggie Smalls come June. Read her statement here. You will be missed, Dr. Monárrez!

We then spend the rest of the episode digesting and discussing Tuesday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety, and how it illustrated the true power dynamics of the city and the police department. (Folks, it’s not good!) In this meeting, Kate Toomey basically hands the police chief the floor to explain away the DOJ report, with conspiracies as wild as ‘radical students taking over the Department of Justice’ and ‘cop-impersonating rapists.’

Full transcript of the Tuesday public safety meeting

Chief’s initial response document from March 4, which he mostly reads off.

New police statement from Wednesday afternoon

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—Outro music by yours truly (Bill) / intro music: “Roaming The Cosmic Winds” by Mystic Realm, Worcester-based dungeon synth project by Kevin Fitzgerald. Check out the full album, Forsaken Kingdom, on the Mystic Realm Bandcamp.

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