Welcome. I’m a CoB ADR retiree from your public safety sector. I’d like you to consider a PSA about the proper use of 911. From each angle Police, Fire and EMS. Personally I think this would do many things for the citizens. One to help ease the toxic work environment of your 911 call centers both civilian (mandated while at work and at home prior to their shifts-CIVILIAN WORKERS) and EMTs on the BEMS EMCO medical pre-arrival instruction side. If citizens were taught when, why and how helps gets to them and what to expect maybe just maybe citizens would be more helpful, less stressed and would know what to expect. Maybe just maybe citizens wouldn’t attack public safety personnel. Maybe just maybe if people knew how to use 911 properly it would be there for the people actually experiencing a true emergency. I’m also a firm believer that every child that graduates from HS should have a career in their pocket. You can do that with EMS and an EMT certification. Look at the City of Bartow in FL. They have a HS program when kids graduate they’re EMTs ready to work. Now wouldn’t that be something for this great city. You have the infrastructure in place already BEMS can teach a rock to save a life.
Thank you for your service, Terri! This is very insightful. Diving into how residents should use 911 (& how 911 works in general) would make for a good post on its own—I’ve spent some time up at the call centers & learned so much from longtime dispatchers about how the job has shifted & the challenges they face now. It’s an incredible level of training & public service that these public safety workers are putting in. Along these lines, in April I signed an executive order designating 911 dispatchers as public safety first responders: https://www.seiu888.org/2023/04/19/mayor-wu-signs-executive-order-supporting-911-dispatchers/
It’s pretty discouraging to see the first comment on Mayor Wu’s latest post coming from someone who’s obviously a troller--impersonating a Russian dissident of all things!
But it doesn’t change the fact that Boston is lucky to have a Mayor who’s smart, empathetic, and fully invested in the city’s people and it’s future. Thanks for this data-rich analysis, Michelle.
The author is not asking uncomfortable questions. The author is trolling. The author clearly holds reactionary attitudes toward the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants, but has cloaked them in “witty” questions offered by a dead dissident. If the author wants to have a constructive conversation about any of these issues, have at it. But the post was clearly designed to provoke hostility not to foster conversation.
He’s asking questions about things that would otherwise be ignored to draw attention to hypocrisy. There’s nothing hostile about it. Words aren’t violence.
Imagine thinking that asking questions about the welfare of children and citizens is hostile trolling. How can you have a constructive conversation without asking questions? Perhaps I need to bootlick harder like Chris to be considered goodthink enough to engage his dear leader.
Welcome to Substack! I am inspired by how much Progress and Herstory you are making in Boston. Would you be open to answering a few of my humble questions?
1) Do you have any updates on how 4 children were found in a Boston apartment that contained drugs, alcohol, sex toys, and a dead transgender person?
2) Why do migrants get free housing in Boston, but not American citizens?
3) If one of your sons told you he was a girl, would you take him to Boston Children's Hospital to receive gender affirming care?
Mayor Wu,
Welcome. I’m a CoB ADR retiree from your public safety sector. I’d like you to consider a PSA about the proper use of 911. From each angle Police, Fire and EMS. Personally I think this would do many things for the citizens. One to help ease the toxic work environment of your 911 call centers both civilian (mandated while at work and at home prior to their shifts-CIVILIAN WORKERS) and EMTs on the BEMS EMCO medical pre-arrival instruction side. If citizens were taught when, why and how helps gets to them and what to expect maybe just maybe citizens would be more helpful, less stressed and would know what to expect. Maybe just maybe citizens wouldn’t attack public safety personnel. Maybe just maybe if people knew how to use 911 properly it would be there for the people actually experiencing a true emergency. I’m also a firm believer that every child that graduates from HS should have a career in their pocket. You can do that with EMS and an EMT certification. Look at the City of Bartow in FL. They have a HS program when kids graduate they’re EMTs ready to work. Now wouldn’t that be something for this great city. You have the infrastructure in place already BEMS can teach a rock to save a life.
Thanks for reading.
Thank you for your service, Terri! This is very insightful. Diving into how residents should use 911 (& how 911 works in general) would make for a good post on its own—I’ve spent some time up at the call centers & learned so much from longtime dispatchers about how the job has shifted & the challenges they face now. It’s an incredible level of training & public service that these public safety workers are putting in. Along these lines, in April I signed an executive order designating 911 dispatchers as public safety first responders: https://www.seiu888.org/2023/04/19/mayor-wu-signs-executive-order-supporting-911-dispatchers/
Will follow up!
It’s pretty discouraging to see the first comment on Mayor Wu’s latest post coming from someone who’s obviously a troller--impersonating a Russian dissident of all things!
But it doesn’t change the fact that Boston is lucky to have a Mayor who’s smart, empathetic, and fully invested in the city’s people and it’s future. Thanks for this data-rich analysis, Michelle.
Are the things he’s talking about discouraging? Or is it discouraging that he’s asking uncomfortable questions?
LeVar would be so disappointed in you.
Why? Reading comprehension is on point.
The author is not asking uncomfortable questions. The author is trolling. The author clearly holds reactionary attitudes toward the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants, but has cloaked them in “witty” questions offered by a dead dissident. If the author wants to have a constructive conversation about any of these issues, have at it. But the post was clearly designed to provoke hostility not to foster conversation.
He’s asking questions about things that would otherwise be ignored to draw attention to hypocrisy. There’s nothing hostile about it. Words aren’t violence.
Imagine thinking that asking questions about the welfare of children and citizens is hostile trolling. How can you have a constructive conversation without asking questions? Perhaps I need to bootlick harder like Chris to be considered goodthink enough to engage his dear leader.
My bet is your a great bootlicker.
Trolls usually are.
When you have no answers, smear the person asking the question. So stunning and brave, Bridget! Mask up and get in line for your next booster.
Dear Mayor Wu,
Welcome to Substack! I am inspired by how much Progress and Herstory you are making in Boston. Would you be open to answering a few of my humble questions?
1) Do you have any updates on how 4 children were found in a Boston apartment that contained drugs, alcohol, sex toys, and a dead transgender person?
2) Why do migrants get free housing in Boston, but not American citizens?
3) If one of your sons told you he was a girl, would you take him to Boston Children's Hospital to receive gender affirming care?
Your Biggest Fan,
Yuri