It s a truism as apt as the old adage about death and taxes.
“You can t please everybody,” said Fort Wayne City Councilwoman Michelle Chambers.
She was speaking after a news conference Wednesday in which Mayor Tom Henry and Police Chief Steve Reed addressed next steps related to recommendations issued months ago by the city s Commission on Police Reform and Racial Justice.
Chambers is right. Action on the recommendations – many focused on repairing strained relationships and improving communication among residents and police officers – likely won t satisfy everyone, particularly activists opposed to police and policing in general.
“But we re working toward improving,” said Chambers, an at-large member of the council who helped lead the commission upon its creation last year.
Fort Wayne police are hiring social workers, undergoing inclusion and diversity training and trying to hire more people of color in response to a comm .
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