Operation Brownville
The law enforcement initiative to “clean-up” of a neighborhood shared by the City of Pensacola and Escambia County will end on Friday, June 16. Did Sheriff Simmons choose the wrong neighborhood?
- Operation Brownsville is bordered by Jackson, Kirk, Avery and A streets.
Why this matters: Operation Brownsville sprung from Sheriff Chip Simmons’ gun violence roundtables, but gun violence in the county appears to be on the rise, especially over the past 10 days:
No Arrests In Triple Shooting Last Week At Cantonment Park
1 dead, 4 shot during party: Escambia Co. Sheriff’s Office
1 man dead after being shot multiple times
Three Shot As Hundreds Gather For ‘May Day’ Event In Cantonment, ECSO Says
Dig Deeper: Other than Mayor D.C. Reeves’ two press conference updates, the public has been given little data on what the Sheriff’s Office and county have done in the area.
Last week’s calendar – where the public was directed to follow the six-week – showed no activities other than “Escambia County Code Enforcement and Animal Control.”
Two events remain:
1) Community Conversation -Topic: Gun Violence, Awareness for Teen at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 12, at the Brownsville Community Center and
2) Sheriff’s Movie Night at 5:30 p.m. – probably also at Brownsville Community Center.
In Case You Missed It
There’s nothing sensational behind Parks & Rec Director Adrian Stills and City Neighborhoods Administrator Lawrence Powell’s administrative leave. Read more.
Mayor D.C. Reeves made it clear that he would use the first 90 days of his administration to evaluate his staff. He hit the six-month mark last month and decided to make changes.- Stills and Powell were placed on leave and given severance packages as they move on to other jobs or retirement.
Hint: More staff changes are coming.
Milestones
“Real News with Rick Outzen” will top 2,100 interviews this week after 15 months – an amazing fest of a show that is only on the air for 90 minutes a day. The podcasts have been played and downloaded nearly 164,000 times.
Inweekly will celebrate its 24th anniversary on July 1, 2023.
Rick’s Blog has had over 24,000 posts since its inception in the spring of 2005.
And the video trailer we created for my novel “City of Grudges” has had more than 44,000 views since it debuted in 2008:
