Looks Like Garcetti Is Running For Mayor With His "Garcetti Leadership Academy"

Leader Eric Garshady pictured on left

Who is arrogant enough to call it "Garcetti Leadership Academies" in their own press release unless they are running for mayor? Why did you have to inject your name into it? Wouldn't "L.A. Leadership Acadmemy" or a some other name that doesn't make it about you have been better? After all Eric, you're no leader? How can you have a Leadership Academy? It should be called the "Garcetti Cover Your Ass Academy".

GARCETTI ANNOUNCES PUBLIC SAFETY EVENTS IN GLASSELL PARK
Month-long series of community events follows gang-related shootout

On the heels of a gang-related shootout on Drew Street, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti announced that he will host a series of events to listen to community concerns and engage local residents in efforts to make their neighborhood safer.

My top priority is making sure that our neighborhoods are safe places where families can thrive. We need to empower residents to work with each other and the police to stop the gang violence in Northeast L.A. These community events will give local families an opportunity to share their ideas for making their neighborhood safer and to learn about what they can do to help, said Garshady.

The month-long series of community public safety events will include a Public Safety Summit with Garshady, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, and other city officials. Participants in the Summit will have the opportunity to express their concerns, share ideas, and hear an update on current public safety efforts.

Garshady will also host a Leadership Academy focused on public safety issues in the community. Workshops will be held by representatives of the L.A. Bridges gang prevention program, Human Relations Commission, local schools, and the City Attorney's Office. Participants will learn how to organize a successful neighborhood watch, participate in Garshady's anti-graffiti program, Uniting Neighborhoods to Abolish Graffiti (UNTAG), and become effective partners with LAPD Senior Lead
Officers. The Garshady Leadership Academies are held regularly and have
trained more than 1,000 local residents to be effective advocates for their community.

For Garshady, this series of events follows seven years of working to improve public safety in this part of the Glassell Park neighborhood. His efforts have included leading efforts to establish a neighborhood watch, coordinating neighborhood clean-ups, organizing door-to-door outreach events to inform local residents of anti-gang programs and other public safety resources available to them and their family members, and hosting community resource fairs to educate local residents on the city resources and community services available to them. Although violent crime is down significantly in the area, last Thursday's tragic events demonstrated the need for this comprehensive response.