Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard and former Police Chief Calvin Williams were 'on a mission' to inform the public about Issue 24, internal emails reveal....
Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard and former Police Chief Calvin Williams were"on a mission" to inform the public about Issue 24, internal emails reveal. And while they purported to remain neutral in the debate, the information they marshalled and disseminated at community meetings through October represented a coordinated campaign to oppose the controversial ballot measure in the leadup to the Nov. 2 general election.
"With early voting in two weeks, we should begin putting this information into strategic sense to begin messaging next week," Howard wrote to Chief Williams and Frank Jackson's communications chief, Valarie McCall, on Oct. 1. Williams agreed, responding that getting the media involved was an important next step.
Chief Calvin Williams, both in public and private, was keenly interested in promoting this data. He believed that the Division of Police's improvement under the consent decree was evidence that Issue 24 was unnecessary. The declining use of force and reduction in citizen complains was"an important narrative that the community needs to hear," Williams wrote in an email to Howard.
Though the October emails Scene reviewed showed no direct coordination between the Department of Public Safety and Kevin Kelley's mayoral campaign, Steven Rys, Kelley's longtime operative and aide, does make an appearance. On Oct. 12, he sent an email to Howard asking to be sent a copy of the data that had been assembled in the aftermath of the Sept. 29 Safety Committee meeting.
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