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In March, McPherson, 44, took over as the MVPD’s newest community outreach officer. It is a role she has desired for years, even before 2017, when a grant began funding
MV police officer’s new role links homeless with vital services Written by Megan V. Winslow
Throughout her nearly 18-year tenure with the Mountain View Police Department, Janleah McPherson became known for the shoes and clothes she carried in the back of her patrol car. Her duties as a patrol officer did not entail donating these items to those she encountered on her beat, but she did so anyway and without the approval of her supervisor.
In March, McPherson, 44, took over as the MVPD’s newest community outreach officer. It is a role she has desired for years, even before 2017, when a grant began funding the position. Following in the footsteps of MVPD officers Mike Taber and Ruben Gonzalez before her, McPherson is now the link connecting Mountain View’s unstably housed population with the local food, shelter and mental health services available to them.
SUPPLEMENT: Reclaim the festival
It is not enough to bemoan the corporate feminists for usurping International Women’s Day, writes Anne McShane. We must show that socialism is a real alternative
International Women’s Day, celebrated each year on March 8, needs to be reclaimed by the socialist and working class movement. It belongs to our history, established by the Socialist International in 1910 to advance women’s emancipation as part of the struggle to overthrow capitalism, created to emancipate working women from the very forces which today falsely claim it as their own.
This year’s official bourgeois festival has the theme, #ChooseToChallenge. Supporters of women’s equality are called on to share a photo on social media with a raised hand - “striking a Choose to Challenge pose”. Role models for the campaign are the famous ‘challengers’, Kamala Harris and Amal Clooney. The event is ‘partnered’ by the transnationals, HCL Technologies and Medtronic, and supp