2022 January Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate

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8706 GROVELAND | SOLD 4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 3,077 SF | $995,000 Paula Streiff - 469-231-7170

823 CLERMONT | $899,900

6959 JOYCE WAY | SOLD 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,609 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

4545 RUSK | SOLD 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,122 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

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5906 ROSS | SOLD

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922 BLUE LAKE | $539,900

10516 ESTATE | SOLD 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2Car | 1,747 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-0316

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contents JANUARY 2022 VOL.29 NO.1

16 PROFILE Stephanie Taylor 20 WHAT’S COOKING New restaurant at former Luby’s site 22 DINING Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen 30 REMEMBER LAST YEAR Twenty-two notable moments from 2021 36 LISTEN UP Avi Adelman still uses police scanners

Vietnamese conical hats hang on the wall at Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen. Read more on page 22. Photography by Jessica Turner.

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THE VARIANCE THAT WASN’T Jon Alexis thought he needed City approval to sell liquor at the old Luby’s site on Mockingbird. By SAM GILLESPIE The site of the former Luby’s on Mockingbird. Photo by Sam Gillespie.

The former Luby’s restaurant site on Mockingbird Lane between Skillman and Abrams will soon be resurrected as a neighborhood hangout. The as-yet unnamed restaurant will be a family-friendly place “where you can grab a breakfast taco to go on your way to work, enjoy a casual lunch, watch the game, enjoy a beer while your kid runs around,” experienced restaurant owner Jon Alexis told readers of the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate’s Facebook page. “Great menu, great drinks in a chill atmosphere.” The site also will have a “huge patio,” Alexis says, for “hip, connected East Dallas families.” One of the casualties of the pandemic, Luby’s served its last meal at this location in April 2020. Alexis is the owner/operator of TJ’s Seafood in Preston Hollow and Oak Lawn, and Malibu Poke in Dallas and Austin. Neighborhood resident Sarah Lamb, who listed the property on behalf of St. Thomas Aquinas, says the church and school received several offers from “wonderful local operators” but the school felt Alexis and his group had a vision that would be “the best steward for the property and the neighborhood.” The City of Dallas approval process for the site wasn’t without controversy, though. Originally, Alexis was told he needed to obtain an alcohol variance in order to serve alcohol within 300 feet of the St. Thomas Aquinas Lower

School. The Luby’s and St. Thomas land parcels are separate, but both are owned by the school; Luby’s was always a tenant of St. Thomas Aquinas. Santos Martinez of La Sierra Planning Group, which is representing Alexis’ group on planning and zoning issues, says the City determined that because St. Thomas Aquinas is a private school and Alexis meets other requirements, an alcohol variance is not necessary. Before the City Council took a second look at the City Code, Alexis thought he had to apply for a variance because a City ordinance prohibits serving alcohol within 300 feet of a school (property line to property line). The Rev. John Libone, the pastor and president of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish and School, wrote a letter supporting the request to grant the variance. “While we are a school and our property lines are contingent, we fully support their application for a variance to operate as a restaurant selling alcohol with an FB & MB permit,” Libone wrote in the letter. “We discussed their intended use at length before they moved forward with their project. In fact, our staff and school families intend to be frequent patrons!” Residents who live along St. Moritz Avenue, the street bordering the northern property line of the site, had mixed reactions to the initial zoning variance request, mostly because they were unaware of plans for the building.

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Neighbors lined up on both sides of the project while the City was evaluating the initial variance request to allow liquor sales. “It seems to me that since the school and restaurant are as close as they are and there is a reason not to serve alcohol within such close proximity then it seems clear they should comply,” says Judi Reinert, who lives directly across from the Luby’s site. “There are reasons for these restrictions, and they should either be adhered to or do away with the regulations.” Mark Risser lives at the corner of Norris and St. Moritz saw the situation differently. “I have lived in the neighborhood for several years and enjoy an urban environment,” Risser says. “I am in support of the alcohol variance on the property. That said — I would like a little better understanding of the concept for the space.” Although the City determined no variance was needed, a public hearing was still required. In December, Martinez appeared on behalf of Alexis and requested a denial given the new interpretation of the code that a variance was unnecessary. The Council voted unanimously to deny the variance, and that was that. Reading City code is apparently hard even for the people who wrote it — but the good news is that we’ll be drinking margaritas on Mockingbird soon.

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NGON IS WHERE THE HEART IS Hanoi street food meets Lowest Greenville

Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

CAROL NGUYEN never planned to be a restaurant owner. After leaving Vietnam in 1978 as a refugee, she moved with her family to Australia. It wasn’t until 1995 when she returned to Vietnam, and she lived there a few years before migrating to Texas 20 years ago.

Her first business was a retail store, but it only lasted about a year. Eventually, she decided to open a restaurant, which wasn’t an unusual decision for her family. One of her cousins owns one in Vietnam, and her aunt has a Cajun restaurant in New Orleans. The Cajun restaurant was where

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Nguyen learned the ins and outs of the business. And in 2013, she opened Crazee Crab in Grand Prairie. Seven years passed before Nguyen opened Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen. Missing the food she grew up eating, she wanted to do it right. “I wanted to try some Vietnamese food

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The goi du du kho bo is a papaya and beef jerky salad topped with peanuts. Bun cha Hanoi is served with a side of sweetened fish sauce.

that I always had in Vietnam, but I wanted it to be my own way, my family recipe that I can’t find around here,” she says. She picked a location on Greenville Avenue, noticing there were plenty of Vietnamese restaurants in the suburbs but fewer of them in Dallas. Since opening in 2020, Ngon has already become a neighborhood favorite, claiming some “best of ” titles in local publications. “We have a lot of support from the community,” she says. The one-page menu isn’t overwhelming. There are two salads, three curry dishes, six rice plates, nine noodle options and a handful of starters, sides and desserts. All of it is authentic, and some of the recipes, like the bun cha Hanoi, belong to her grandmother, who taught her to cook. The rest of the dishes were developed as Nguyen learned from professionals in Vietnam. Pho, rice noodles in a savory beef broth, is one of the most popular selections, and Ngon offers it in a few varieties — with chicken, beef or seafood, as well as a vegetarian option. Another common pick is the shaking tenderloin, which is beef tenderloin, bell pepper and onions seasoned with black pepper and served with blue rice. Nguyen says the food at Ngon is unlike food served at other Vietnamese places. Her restaurant prepares dishes in the style of northern Vietnam, which is saltier and uses different spices from the sweeter southern Vietnamese versions. Ngon is also unique in its celebration of Vietnamese culture and events. For the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, which took place in September, the restaurant hosted lion dance performances and served holiday dishes: hopia cake, or mooncake, and a red bean pudding. Many Asian countries celebrate this holiday, but

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Vietnam’s take has its own traditions and legends. One version of a story tells of a man named Cuôi who clung to a magical banyan tree as it floated to the moon. It’s said that a close look at the full moon will reveal the shadow of a man sitting under a tree. “I want people around here to know more about Vietnamese culture. People know about Chinese and Japanese a lot more than Vietnamese, so I want to introduce my culture,” she says. Nestled between Gallo Nero and Bullzerk, Ngon offers indoor and patio seating on Lowest Greenville. Inside, Nguyen designed the space to be comfortable and welcoming. “I love plants, so I have a lot of green around the restaurant,” she says. The word “ngon,” without an accent, means “delicious” in Vietnamese. With the accent, ngôn changes pronunciation, and it’s the name of Nguyen’s mother. “I think about my mom first because she’s the one who always supported me,” Nguyen says. Nguyen plays active roles at the restaurant. She’s not just the owner; she’s also the head chef and waits tables, making menu recommendations to guests. Many people who’ve tried Vietnamese food before have come across pho or spring rolls. Ngon offers those, but Nguyen says she encourages people to venture beyond what’s familiar. In the future, Nguyen says she hopes to open a second Ngon either in Austin, where her 25-year-old child lives, or in Florida, where she has a home. “I want customers to feel like they’ve come to visit a friend or family’s house,” Nguyen says. “So I try my best to make it cozy.” Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen, 1907 Greenville Ave., 469.250.7183, ngonvietkitchen.com

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live & let write A FORMER CIA ANALYST

TURNED SPY-THRILLER AUTHOR Story by RENEE UMSTED Photography by YUVIE STYLES

DAVID MCCLOSKEY WA N T E D TO B E A N ASTRONAUT WHEN HE GREW UP. “Between some combination of being very tall, which precludes you from being an astronaut, and also being very afraid of heights, I realized that was not going to fly,” he says. At some point, he stopped trying to figure out what he wanted to be. It wasn’t until college when he decided to choose a career related to international relations and foreign affairs. When the CIA came to campus to talk about its internship program, McCloskey didn’t think he’d be selected. “It’s one of those things where you’re like, ‘OK, pretty easy for me to apply, relatively speaking, and I’ll never get it, but why not try,” he says.

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McCloskey didn’t just get to see the inner workings of an agency shrouded in secrets. He also wrote a book. Alone, each of those experiences could be considered special. But together, they’ve placed him in an exclusive club, one with John le Carré and Karen Cleveland on its roster. Working for the CIA allowed him to travel and pursue interests. Before he could start, he needed a security clearance, and at age 19, took his first polygraph test. After completing two summers as an intern, McCloskey graduated from college and joined the agency full-time. He spent eight years as an analyst, working mostly from Virginia but also taking trips to the CIA’s stations in the Middle East. Job responsibilities included briefing senior White House officials — including the president — ambassadors and military officials and providing classified testimony to congressional oversight committees. After leaving the agency, he earned a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. A few months later,

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he and h i s w i fe m ove d to Uptown in D a l l a s fo r h i s n ew job at McKinsey & Co., a b u s i n e s s m a n a ge m e n t fi r m t h at a d v i ses co m pa n i es i n a ra n g e o f i n d u s t r i e s . A s a consultant, McCloskey worked with clients involved in national security, aerospace and transportation. There were a few months between graduation and the first day at McKinsey, so he started writing, seeking to process experiences from his time in the CIA. McCloskey had witnessed the tumult of the Arab Spring and the Syrian war from field stations in the Middle East. He had also worked for a while in the Counterterrorism Center, focusing on the jihad in Syria and Iraq. “I wrote a lot. Most of it was very bad,” he says, adding he’s enjoyed writing since elementary school. “I put it on the shelf, did the McKinsey job for a while and then came back to it and realized that I really wanted to write something that I would enjoy writing and other people would enjoy reading.” Only a couple characters and sentences from the draft written in the three-month period before he started at McKinsey made it to the final version. He didn’t start taking steps to craft a publishable work — soliciting feedback on drafts, thinking about plot, searching for an agent and publisher — until 2019. Years passed between the two writing periods. “I was doing a consulting job here that was pretty intense, and there wasn’t a whole lot of creative or emotional energy left at the end of the day or the end of the week to devote to writing,” he says, having by then moved his family from Uptown to Lakewood. The neighborhood, with its

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“laidback” feel, was closer to White Rock Lake and friends. Writing seven or eight h o u rs ea c h d ay, Mc C l os key was “mostly done” with Damascus Station in about eight months. The process was delayed when publishing houses stopped acquiring new submissions because of the pandemic, so his book wasn’t picked up by a publisher until summer 2020. The CIA’s Publications Review Board returned a sanctioned version of the book within five days. An editor at W. W. Norton & Co. helped him through a rewrite, and the publisher purchased the book. The first print run included 17,500 copies. Da m a scu s Stat i o n re l i es o n Mc C l os key ’s experience and insider perspective as a former analyst. It tells the fictional story of Sam Joseph, a CIA case officer who is trying to avenge his colleague who was captured and killed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s secret police. Joseph is sent to Paris to recruit a Syrian Palace official, Miriam Haddad, who is beginning to feel uneasy about supporting the regime. She and Joseph fall in love, beginning a dangerous and emotional adventure. McCloskey is already working on his second book. For a while, he pursued a storyline set in the Big Bend region, but the idea didn’t pan out. “I’m still doing a U.S.-Russia spy novel, but it’s pretty much all set in Russia, Langley and Europe,” he says. ”It’s focused on the next phase of the U.S.Russia spy conflict and imagining what that might look like.”

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BYE-BYE, BARBECUE Lakewood Smokehouse, which opened in Lakewood Shopping Center five years ago, closed permanently. The restaurant cited problems caused by COVID-19 as the reason for the decision. Sales hadn’t returned to their pre-pandemic levels, and the restaurant had been paying more for items. Photography by Kathy Tran.

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Another weird year done. That freak snow storm, real estate drama, furious street racing — it’s crazy to think all that and a whole lot more happened in the same year. Here are the stories that captivated our neighborhood.

CHILD-CARE GAP White Rock Montessori School, one of Dallas’ first private schools, will begin offering yearround early childhood programs. This is part of an effort to meet the needs of working families.

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Paul Ridley beat David Blewett in a runoff election for the District 14 Dallas City Council seat. Paula Blackmon, an incumbent, was re-elected to the District 9 spot.

Crews broke ground on the first phase of the Trinity Forest Spine Trail, which will connect the Santa Fe Trail north of the Tenison Park Golf Course to Samuell Boulevard, just north of Interstate 30. The trail, a project managed by the Circuit Trail Conservancy, is one of the pieces of The Loop, 50 miles of continuous walking, biking and running paths. “This type of amenity coming online is going to continue to make Dallas incredibly resilient and ready for that future,” says Philip Hiatt Haigh, executive director of the CTC. “This is a 50-year investment that we are making right now.” Courte-

WHISKY-FLAVORED TEARS IN MEMORIAM Dusty Hill, a Woodrow Wilson alumnus and a member of ZZ Top, died at 72. The bassist, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, died in his sleep. Photo courtesy of Woodrow Wilson High School via Facebook.

Trinity Hall Irish Pub closed at Mockingbird Station after 20 years of business in the neighborhood. The lease was up, and the owners announced on a sign posted to the door that they had pulled “the classic Irish goodbye.” Marius Donnelly owned the place and once told The Advocate he had “everything but the floor” of the pub flown in from Ireland. Photo courtesy

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of Trinity Hall Irish Pub via Facebook.

OUI-OUI, PATISSERIE! Two bakeries in our neighborhood, Leila Bakery & Cafe and Boulangerie by Village Baking Co., are some of the 10 best bakeries in Dallas, according to USA Today.

DRIVE-THRU DRAMA Plans for a Whataburger with a 24-hour drive-thru near the Gaston-Garland-Grand intersection were stalled when Dallas City Council returned the case to the City Plan Commission. Public notices to surrounding property owners for the initial CPC public hearing were incorrectly prepared. In May, with a 6-5 vote, the plan commission approved the restaurant’s request to end the deed restrictions to be able to operate the drive-thru.

RELAX YOUR SETBACKS HOW CORNY The Pocket Sandwich Theatre, a neighborhood institution for decades, had to move from its location at Mockingbird Central Plaza. Owners of the shopping center told the dinner theater its lease would not be renewed because it didn’t fit with the vision of the area. “In 1990 we moved here from another location on Greenville Avenue, and 2022 will be the start of another move and a new adventure,” says Shanon Dickinson, the theater manager. “The story is not over.” Photography by Emil Lippe.

Residents of the Belmont Addition Conservation District showed what neighborhood self-determination can be. After years of meetings and petitions, the Dallas City Council approved modifications to the district’s regulations for fences, front-yard setbacks, renovations of nonconforming structures and driveway access.

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LIVE, LAUGH, LUNCH Since construction of The Village began in 1968, the residential community has grown to include 7,300 apartment units. Last year, it opened several restaurants such as Anise, which serves Mediterranean dishes, and La Mina, an upscale Mexican place tucked into the lowest level of The Drey Hotel.

CLUB COMPROMISE The owners of OT Tavern reached a settlement with the City Attorney and agreed the business on Greenville Avenue would comply with certain regulations. Guests are not allowed to enter after 12:15 a.m. on most weeknights, and everyone must clear out by 12:45 a.m. Plus the bar must use a valet service and have six security guards on duty. Outdoor speakers have to be shut off by sundown. After two years of that, OT Tavern will no longer be able to operate with its current “nonconforming” status under zoning rules. These decisions came after the Board of Adjustment ruled in favor of nearby Bar 3606, another nonconforming establishment.

QUIET TIME? District 2 City Councilman Jesse Moreno created a task force to address noise complaints in Deep Ellum. Moreno invited the Deep Ellum Foundation, the Deep Ellum Community Association, district entertainment and live-music venue owners to join the task force, which will work with the Department of Code Compliance Services to come up with district-specific amendments. The rules regulating venues in Deep Ellum hadn’t changed, but enforcement of them had. In a matter of months, Code Compliance issued nine noise citations.

TV LEGEND Dallas native and former Junius Heights neighbor Bob Phillips released a memoir marking 50 years of Texas Country Reporter, in which he documents his start as a young reporter and how he came to host the longest-running independently produced TV show in American television. Photo courtesy of Bob Phillips via Facebook.

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BIG TEX After being canceled in 2020, the State Fair of Texas returned in 2021. A Fair to Remember, a documentary made by East Dallas neighbors Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell, was rereleased to celebrate. The Mondells are the co-founders of the nonprofit Media Projects Inc., and since 1978, they have been producing and distributing documentary films about history, mental health, women’s studies and more. Photo courtesy of Media Projects Inc.

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WHAT A DRAG It has been more than 20 years since the last White Rock Lake dredging, which removes sediment to restore the lake to a sufficient depth for recreational use. The first dredging in 1937 got off to a rough start. Andrea Hawkins of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department says a feasibility report was completed September 2020, and City officials are now looking at how to pay for the dredging. Construction could be funded in the next bond program, around 2024, and dredging would start three or four years after the funding is figured out. The actual dredging would take between one and three years, so the whole project is expected to be completed around 2031. Photo courtesy of Dallas Historical Archives.

MIGRATING NORTH The residential real estate market was booming last year. With high demand and low supply, our neighborhood wasn’t left out of the madness. One Junius Heights neighbor, Julia Bunch, wrote about seeing house after house on nearby streets listed, sold and renovated. It was only a matter of time before her landlord decided to sell the property. Bunch and her husband were given the opportunity to buy the house, which they had been renting. So they had to leave, migrating north to get a bigger bang for their buck. Photography by Danny Fulgencio.

The City Council approved The Trailhead, a mixed-use development slated for the site of the former Lot and Local Traveler restaurants near the Gaston-Garland-Grand intersection. Approval came with a few conditions for the developer, Mill Creek Residential. Height is limited to six stories, and there’s an affordability requirement of 9%, which is about 27 units. The developer proposed no more than 305 total units and up to 20,000 square feet of commercial space with public access to the Santa Fe Trail. At the City Council meeting, neighbors spoke in opposition to the developer and wanted the newly elected representatives to have more time to review the case.

25 YEARS OF TOGETHERNESS There are plenty of topics that divide us: politics, religion, favorite taco place. But one thing unites us: our love for White Rock Lake. For the Love of the Lake, turned 25. Since it started in 1996, the group has organized more than 300 Saturday events to pick up litter.

TESTING ACES Lakewood Elementary was ranked the 27th best elementary school in Texas by U.S. News & World Report. Rankings were based on students’ performance on mathematics and reading/ language arts state tests. At Lakewood, 87% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 86% scored at or above the level for reading.

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ON PATROL SINCE THE EARLY AUGHTS E A S T DA L L A S R E S I D E N T AVI ADELMAN’S NAME HAS APPEARED IN NEWS STORIES ALONGSIDE PHRASES INCLUDING: “JOURNO TERRORIST,” “political gadfly,” “most annoying person,” “scorge of Lower Greenville,” “the Grinch that stole Greenville Ave.,” “clashing with police,” “restrained in handcuffs,” “ landing in court.” And there was his self-assigned nickname, Barking Dog, and the eponymous website that he retired a few years ago. At 65, Adelman is still doing his thing — monitoring police activity, zipping around in his Jeep to scenes with dramatic potential, keeping pace with first responders. His website on photoshelter.com features unexpurgated images — “ N i g h t c r aw l e r ” i n s t i l l s . He also maintains a website called D a l l a s P o l i c e Wa t c h . c o m t h a t organizes real-time police reports by subdivision. The stringer relies on scanners and the City of Dallas Open Data system, which includes Dallas Police Department reports and active call data. And all of those things are at risk of annihilation today, he says.

A FIGHT WORTH FIGHTING Since the BD days, Adelman won a $345k settlement from DART a f t e r a n u n l aw f u l a r r e s t w h i l e photographing an emergency scene, moved away from his Greenville Avenue battleground to quie ter Junius Heights, lost his wife and seems to have started picking his battles a little more selectively. But he’s riled up about Police Chief Eddie Garcia and the City of Dallas’ plan to remove and delay police information available to the

public through Dallas Open Data. In a n O c t . 1 5 m e m o t o t o p City of Dallas officials, Dr. Brita Andercheck, the City of Dallas Data Analytics and Business Intelligence d i r e c t o r, w h o i s o v e r s e e i n g a n overhaul of the police reporting system, said her office had started omitting personal identifying information of complainants. The redo includes further recommendations that have not yet been implemented, including a delay of the Active Calls data set by 24 hours. Andercheck says the redaction of personally identifiable information (PIL) protects victims of crime. “ Pu b l i s h i n g P I L i s a p r i va c y and security risk. Including PIL on the Open Data Portal exposes individuals to potential hackers, identity theft and potential reprisals or revictimization,” she says. “Not publishing PIL on the Open Data Por tal is bringing the City into alignment with national best practices designed to keep residents safe.” T he delay of ac tive calls, she says, protects the police, public and first responders and “prevents b y s t a n d e r s f r o m i n t e r f e r i n g at active crime scenes and helps to preserve the integrity of evidence and investigations.” That “bystanders” part particularly irks Adelman. “I have been to hundreds of crime scenes over the years. I can think of only two or three incidents that had interference, and that usually was a family member going crazy at an accident,” he says. “When crowds are hassling cops, they were attracted by the sirens, the bubble gum lights. Does Garcia propose to stop using sirens and lights too?”

Adelman says the plan would allow police to manipulate information and craft the d e p a r t m e n t ’s i m a g e , t h a t i t w o u l d l i m i t p o l i c e - c o m m u n i ty transparency and the public’s ability to find out what is happening in their neighborhoods. “The DPD proposals would kill off the Dallas Police Watch site along with the @DPDCentral Twitter feed,” Adelman says. “What I think is happening is Garcia has got this in his head — he’s a social media relations wizard, for good or bad — and he wants to put a good look on everything.” Adelman says a 24-hour delay of police calls also will render him far less efficient when it comes to photographing breaking events.

BALANCING NEEDS While Adelman may be the loudest critic of the DPD’s plan, he is not alone in concern. Paul Landfair runs the website DallasAreaWatch.com where he creates reports for neighborhood crime watch groups across Dallas. (Both he and Adelman have written programs that channel information from Open Data.) He says if the removal of personally identifying information includes crime scene addresses, it would render his service — used by some 250 single-family neighborhoods and 400 apartment complexes ever y day, he says — useless. “Garcia had said there’s some m o r e s t u ff h e w a n t s t o r e d a c t . That would get me, if he redacted incident addresses,” Landfair says. “My site would be dead. We (those who run similar crime watch sites) would all be dead.” JAJANUARY 2022

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L a n d f a i r ’s c o n c e r n w a s s u c h that he requested a meeting with Andercheck and A ssis tant City Manager John For tune, during which the officials told him they did not plan to remove the incident address. Landfair notes that often the crime, a burglary for instance, occurs at the victim’s address. Adercheck, whose office assumed responsibility for the Open Data Portal in October 2020 and rebuilt it in 2021, told The Advocate her office is not considering removing incident locations “at this time.” How would publishing the incident location, when crimes often occur at people’s homes, square with the protecting-the-victim angle? “There are several considerations on this question,” she says. “ The firs t is, not e ver y crime occ urs at someone’s home. The second is, we are balancing a need to protect privacy, with a need to be transparent about where crimes are occurring in our community.” Dallas City Council members, too, are worried about these changes and department transparency. At the Public Safety Committee meeting in October, vice chair Cara Mendelsohn insisted that further changes be brought before the full City Council for a broader policy discussion. “Who else have you consulted? Have we talked to the media, to crime watch groups? Did we get i n p u t f r o m r e s i d e n t s ? I d o n’ t think any of that part happened,” Mendelsohn said to Andercheck. Mendelsohn, Dallas’ City Council District 12 representative, wondered aloud why it was necessary to remove PIL considering state laws already allow police to redact information related to sexual crimes, juveniles and anything that would hinder an investigation. “I believe in government transparency for as much information as possible as long as

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it doesn’t put the city or residents at risk,” she told The Advocate in a f o l l o w - u p i n t e r v i e w. “ In t h i s age of policing, establishing and maintaining trust with the public means we need more transparency, not less.” Garcia said publicly he supports the changes, noting that we are “not the only city who does this.”

SCANNERS: SOON A THING OF THE PAST When and if the public loses the ability to observe active police calls online, we still have police scanners and Broadcastify and those digital news services such as DFW Scanner or Smash Da Topic for real-time reports and updates, right? N o t f o r l o n g . D a l l a s Po l i c e Department is working toward a radio system replacement plan — has been for the past four years — that would “enable encrypted communications that cannot be intercepted by a third party.” With its existing system the DPD can’t encrypt communication, but they can once they have this new system in place, thus the public’s police-scanner listening days are numbered. T he only holdup is that the replacement sys tem cos ts $6.6 million. Adelman, who was one of the first on the scene of, for example, a house explosion in Oak Cliff last summer, says in addition to active calls data, he uses scanners. He bought two at Target for $90 each. According to the tech-media newsletter Built In, 280,000 people tuned into the police scanner service Broadcastify over two days of police protests in 2020. Built In reporter Stephen Gossett notes that, “as popularity in appbased police radio scanners ballooned in 2020, many departments began to encrypt their radio communications so only those within the department

can receive messages.” He goes on, “This presents an issue with public transparency, eliminating the ability for people to maintain real-time security within their own communities and reducing the already dwindling trust offered toward local police departments.” Both scanners and active-incident data must be approached with the understanding that they are not in and of themselves news. They are tools that allow reporters to follow an incident. They offer a starting point as well as a record on which to reflect when something does become an important story. Will people misuse these tools? Of course. Ma n y — f r o m h o b b y i s t s t o journalists and law enforcement officials themselves, even, according to Gossett’s reporting — say that does not mean we should be kept in the dark about potential crime, violence or other police activity in our neighborhood. The U.S. Department of Justice “Toolkit for policing” sums up the role and responsibilities of police and the community. “Transparency is essential to positive police-community relationships. When a critical incident occurs, agencies should try to release as much information about it as possible, as soon as possible, so the community will not feel that information is being purposefully withheld from them. “It is also important to stress that the first information to emerge following a critical incident is preliminary and may change as more information becomes available,” the literature continues. “Police leaders should let the news media and the public know that early information may not be correct, and should correct any misinformation quickly.” Proposed updates to the City of Dallas Open Data portal will go before the Dallas City Council prior to further changes. At time of publication, the item was not yet on the council’s agenda.

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a c k w h e n th e pan d e mic first reared its ugly head, neighbor Linda M a r i e Fo r d w a n t e d t o h e l p h e r f at h e r, T i m Fo r d , c e l e brate his 80th trip around the sun. Mi n dfu l of s a f e ty a n d n ix in g any in-person par ty, Ford instead saw a w i n d o w o f o p p o r t u n i t y. Ma k e t h at 3 6 w i n d ow s . A t t he f r on t of Ford ’s h ome in Lakewood are window panes, 36 of which are visible above shrubber y. Utilizing Back when the pandemic first reared its ugly head, neighbor Linda Marie Ford wanted to help her father, Tim Ford, celebrate his 80th trip around the sun. Mindful of safety and nixing any in-person

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p a r t y, Fo r d i n s t e a d s aw a w i n d o w o f o p p o r t u n i t y. Ma ke t h a t 36 win dows. A t t h e f r o n t o f Fo r d ’s h o m e in L ake w ood ar e window panes, 36 of which are visible above s h r u b b e r y. U t i l i z i n g e a c h p a n e for one letter or space (think TV ’s “ W h e e l o f For tune”), she pos ted a message for her beloved father: “Hap p y 80th Bir thday Pops!” Fo r d p a i n t e d t h e l e tt e r s o n cop y p aper, and used them over and over since, creating letters as needed — sor t of a giant version of S crab b l e. And so began our neighborhood ’s most interesting message board, equal parts funny and

controversial, a running commentary and chronology of life these day s. Ford initially found inspiration n e a r b y. “ In t h e v e r y b e g i n n i n g of COVID,” she says, “neighbors were sending emails saying it was their kid ’s bir thday and asking if any one woul d l ike to put a sig n in their windows.” She ran with the idea, and the g ra n d ge s t u r e p a i d o ff : He r f a ther was thr il l ed and passer sb y n o t i c e d t h e b i r t h d ay w i s h . S h e says, “ T he bes t par t was that we would sit out front and people would jog or walk by with a ‘Hey, tell Pops Happy Birthday!’ Pretty cool .”

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t’s resolution season and I already feel defeated. You? How will this year be different? My daughter and her husband manage expectations with their three young girls at Christmas. Learning from the wedding tradition of “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” they limit the presents they give (not Santa) to “Something to read, something to wear, something needed, something wanted.” Less poetic, maybe, but it gets the job done. W h at i f we a d o p t e d a s i m i l a r scheme for New Year’s resolutions and slimmed down our list? It might bone up our resolve. Here’s a suggestion: Something holy, something good, something beautiful, something true. More reason than rhyme, but at least it highlights spiritual virtues. And since this column often connects the private and the public in faith, consider resolutions in these realms that account for social networks and institutions, not just personal improvement. Something holy. Participate in, serve with and give to a religious congregation. The widespread notion that you can be “spiritual but not religious” suggests you can be close to God and be a good person without engaging with other people in rituals of worship and communal life. That’s a little like learning a foreign language from a book or an app and never conversing or sharing everyday life with people who speak that language natively. Strengthen a church or synagogue by your involvement this year. Something good. The next three will have similar themes. This one is ethical. Pick one subject or issue you care about personally and that affects others, too. Neighborhood watch, street

and sidewalk improvement, cultural intelligence in schools, environmental justice. Find out who else is doing something about these things and join them. There are a handful of nonprofits for any of these issues who would love to help check this resolution off your list. Something beautiful. Ugliness is a blight on the soul as well as the community. Cultivate beauty as an act of resistance to our throwaway society and lift our collective spirit at the same time. Beauty involves harmony, things fitting together well, like a row of pansies, a clump of crepe myrtles, treble and bass clefs, a clean car or a colorful mural. Join the Arboretum or one of our amazing museums. Buy season tickets to Dallas Summer Musicals or the Dallas Theater Center. Something true. Limit social media if you find yourself being entertained by fake news just because you like it, whether it meets standards of truth or not. Support real journalism and the institutions that foster it. Subscribe to the Dallas Morning News and D Magazine. Read The Advocate (check). Give to the Dallas Free Press. It can’t be said often enough: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.” We will not heal what divides us as a nation if we don’t have a common commitment to the truth. Old habits may die hard, but new ones like these give life to us all. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons

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LUTHERAN EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH /corner of Peak & San Jacinto/English Worship 10:00 am/Sunday School 11:00am-Noon/Spanish Worship 12:15pm/ church.emanueldallas.org CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Rev. K.M. Truhan Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary LAKEWOOD UMC / 2443 Abrams Rd. / 214.823.9623 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am / mylakewoodchurch.org Messy Church for Children and Families Sunday 5:00 pm MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Come & See

Sunday: Morning Worship: 9:30 & 11:00 am Evening Worship 5:00 pm 5200 Bryan Street / mungerplace.org

N O N - D E N O M I N AT I O N A L LAKE POINTE CHURCH – WHITE ROCK CAMPUS

Classic Service at 9:30 & Contemporary Service at 11:00 am lakepointe.org / 9150 Garland Road LAKEWOOD FELLOWSHIP / Sundays 10:00 am /

White Rock YMCA / 7112 Gaston Ave LakewoodFellowship.org / Lakewood@LakewoodFellowship.org THE CHURCH AT JUNIUS HEIGHTS / / 5429 Reiger Ave.

Sunday Service at 10:30am / Spanish speaking Service 12:30pm / Pastor Travis Endsley / 214-484-1055 / tcjh.org

PRESBYTERIAN ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 9999 FERGUSON RD. saintmarkchurch.org / Sunday School 9:15am / Worship I0:30am/ 214.321.6437/ Rev. Rick Brooks NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sunday Worship 10:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family. PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 4124 Oak Lawn Ave Sunday Worship 9:00 & 11:00 A.M. To all this church opens wide her doors - pcpc.org

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