EDITORIAL: Sniping won’t help solve Saratoga Springs’ summer problems | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 If your goal is to bring people together to benefit the greater good, there are better alternatives than holding a whiny, defensive, politically charged, accusation-filled, anti-free-speech, subliminally racist news conference. But that’s what Saratoga Springs Assistant Police Chief John Catone and Public Safety Commissioner Robin Dalton opted for last Monday as their approach to addressing unruly crowds in the heart of the city’s bar district, an event that went off the rails into a tirade over state and local laws, political positions, and public protests against police violence and racism that offered plenty of finger-pointing but few solutions.