Don't call it a czar!

As part of his new anti-gang strategy unveiled this week, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he will hire a "Director of Anti-Gang and Youth development". When reporters asked about the new gang czar position at a press conference, Villaraigosa was quick to correct. It's not a gang czar.
"I didn't want to use the word czar," Villaraigosa said. "It sounded too military to me. I don't like the connotation of the word czar."
The director will be " the individual who will have authority to coordinate prevention, intervention, re-entry services in the City of Los Angeles. So they would function in that capacity. But that wasn't the term we wanted to use."
Civil rights attorney and author of the city's gang reduction strategy report Connie Rice urged the mayor to hire a gang czar, and has said recently that she thinks there may only be five people in Los Angeles qualified for the job. But she too doesn't care for the czar title.
"In light of the sad demise of the real Czars, and the abject failure of every federal "Drug Czar," we are reluctant to use that title," Rice's team wrote in their report.
Sorry mayor. Sorry Connie. We're still going to call him or her the gang czar.