Ryan reflects on his tenure thus far, while Jim Heaney gives a thumbs up following the disastrous reign of Byron Brown. Geoff wrote:As mayor, the only development Ryan has expressed interest in subsidizing is affordable housing in the city’s neighborhoods. What’s apparent now that he’s gone is that Brown was an even worse mayor than we realized at the time. Dale recently reported on the extensive use of license plate readers by local police. The truth is, a lot of the technologies that feed into those [local surveillance] centers have significant problems … There needs to be much more awareness of what’s actually out there.