What should Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryants biggest priority be on day one?
Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryants first day on the job is Friday. COLUMBUS, Ohio  Cleveland Avenue. The Linden area. Zone Four as its referred to by Columbus Police. Here is where 20 of the citys 94 homicides have happened this year. Number 20 happened Wednesday evening. Every day, Keana Fleming said. Every day is something different and its something a little worser than what it was the day before.  Fleming is fed up with the violence. If it dont stop now its going to get worser and worser and worser and worser, she said. Shes also fed up with the runaround. She says sometimes dispatchers on calls to 911 will tell her theyll get there when they get there. Fleming also says one call of a disturbance at her place of work took four-and-a-half hours for an officer to stop by. We [sic] about to be in the hundreds [of homicides] and you tell me youll get there whenever you get there, she said. No, it dont work like that.  Its why Thursday, while sitting up two chairs on Cleveland Avenue and when asked about incoming Police Chief Elaine Bryant, Fleming and others teed off on what the chiefs biggest issues will be. Police reform, Fleming said. Id say the gun violence out here, Kevin Bayless said. Bayless has lived in Linden 48 years. He loves it. Hed love even more to see positive change. Do you feel like [Bryants] going to get it done or shes over her head, 10TVs Bryant Somerville asked Bayless. I believe shell get it done, he said. Everett Thornton thinks Bryants biggest issue is trust within her department. I think that she has to gain the trust of her fellow officers, he said. You have to have that.  The Marine veteran also says change starts at home. Black Lives Matter movement, defund the police  thats the dumbest [expletive] Ive ever heard, he said. The police.  Thornton believes parents have to be held accountable and not create toxic hostility between their children and police and, instead, help to create mutual respect. I dont know, he said. Im trying to figure out whats the solution.  Maybe change doesnt lie with just one person. Do you feel optimistic with chief Bryant coming in, Somerville asked Fleming. Yeah, she said. I think shell shake things up.  Maybe change lies with all of us.