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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is the status quo acceptable?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-hidden-world-desperation-and-cramped-living-for-homeless-families-in-dc-motels/2016/01/28/279adfda-b4d8-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html[/quote]

Exactly. How is the status quo acceptable?

"The last six months have been filled with trying to understand exactly what has plagued this department for decades and to better comprehend why people die needlessly in the District of Columbia...

First, the [b]culture [/b]of the DC Fire and EMS Department is highly toxic to the delivery of any semblance of quality pre-hospital patient care. EMS reform, even attempts to make basic changes, are met with resistance from the top down...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/local/dc-ems-resignation-letter/1955/?tid=a_inl[/quote]

The most shocking part was when she was stymied in her plan to evaluate the skills and performance EMS personnel, and fire dept management caved to the union and blocked it.  Worth remembering when you realize that a DC ambulance may be called upon to transport the president in an emergency -- or your child![/quote]

Agreed. The whole letter is worth reading. And it explains why so many of us are highly skeptical about the competency and even desire by DC bureaucracy to deliver on existing programs, much less launch new ones.[/quote]

So...you are advocating that the DC government not do anything? Not take on any challenges? Seriously, I know the DCEMS thing is seriously f-d up (I am in the business), but I would never suggest that DC should stop providing services. Every agency is different, and there is a lot of very good work done every day by a lot of very capable people.[/quote]

Nope, that's not what I'm saying. Mayor Bowser just won an election, so deserves a chance to prove she can turn the boat around. How? Perhaps by replacing, up and down, the people in her team and in the bureaucracy who simply stand in the way. Just adding more money and more programs on a fundamentally broken machine is not going to make that machine work much better.[/quote]

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