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John,
I want to tell you a story from my time rebuilding Detroit’s Health
Department.
When I first walked into the department, it was a shell of what it used to
be. After bankruptcy, the city had handed its public-health
responsibilities to an underfunded nonprofit.
By the time I took the job, Detroit Animal Control was operating out of a
crumbling 1927 building, understaffed, exhausted, and overwhelmed.
I’ll be honest, taking on animal control wasn’t something I expected when
I agreed to rebuild a health department. But public health is about people
and animals, and this was a public-safety crisis.
Hundreds of dogs were being abandoned. Families were afraid to let their
kids walk to school. Nearly 80% animals brought into the facility were
being euthanized — a heartbreaking reality of an under-resourced
department that simply couldn’t keep up.
This situation made one thing painfully clear: When our government fails
to meet its responsibilities, we all suffer. So, we got to work.
* We raised salaries so we could fully staff the team.
* We moved into a new facility.
* We rewrote outdated protocols.
* We partnered with community advocates instead of ignoring them.
By the end of my tenure, we had flipped the numbers, and nearly 80% of the
animals we took in were finding loving families.
That experience taught me something fundamental: Good government isn’t
abstract, and it only works when the people running it put human beings
first.
Just like we turned around a broken animal care system in Detroit, we can
turn around a broken political system in Washington, but it only happens
when people power the work.
[ [link removed] ]Will you pitch in $10 or whatever you can to help us do
it?
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Your friend in the fight,
Abdul
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