advocates

Some of the folks known as the usual suspects in the downtown policing policy debates, including MPD, the Promoters, venue owners, but also the artists and musicians, poets, of our downtown area and Stanislaus County in general, do a lot of community events, for charitable causes, on a volunteer basis, as consultants, and nonprofits, serve a lot of causes, people in need, of all sorts, some on tight nearly non-existent budgets, some with sponsors or big donors as backers, some are big budget programs, and not as well known to the general public, beyond we sort of expect churches, civic organizations and groups, nonprofits to do this sort of stuff. Who are these people?