Re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Instead, increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. Phoenix needs policing alternatives and investments in mental health/trauma services, education/after-school care, housing, healthcare, & employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create a safe community.
DEFUND PHX PD. As the deadliest police department in the country, it is essential that they are defunded and the money instead allocated to health services, education, public transportation, small business relief, or any community program that will actually enrich and benefit the community instead of harming it. Especially in light of recent police violence against peaceful protestors, the PHX PD MUST BE DEFUNDED.
I am contacting you to reconsider the proposed $994,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to programs that heal and educate our community. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma.
My name is Luisa Zamora and I urge you to defund the police and use those funds to put them back into the community. Phoenix police is known to terrorize our community and misuse their funds. Instead, it would be more productive to fund education, affordable housing, affordable healthcare (including mental healthcare) and other resources to better our community.
Re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Instead, increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment.
Phoenix needs policing alternatives and investments in mental health/trauma services, education/after-school care, housing, healthcare, & employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create a safe community.
I strongly urge the City of Phoenix to review and severely decrease the amount of money allocated to the police force. Please consider investing in more peaceful and meaningful alternatives, such as mental health funding. As someone who lives in the greater Phoenix area, the actions and decisions of this city reflect on my life and the lives of many people.
Our budget for law enforcement should not and cannot be reduced. Officers were mobilized over the weekend due to the lack of staff that to protect our city in a time of chaos. We are facing shortages due to hiring freezes and are risking the safety of our officers every day with current staffing levels. I am ashamed as a member of the city of Phoenix to witness us threaten the life safety of our community members by proposing a reduction in the budget for the city of Phoenix PD.
According to p. 14 of the Proposed Budget for 2020-21, Phoenix Police have been allocated $745,289,000 for expenditures. As a Valley resident, this money should be drastically reduced and redistributed to other areas of the community, such as Transportation, Community Development/Enrichment, and Environmental Services. The city of Phoenix needs alternatives to militarized policing; money set aside for riot gear, militarized equipment, and increased salaries can and should be spent elsewhere.
I urge the council to reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. As a community, we ask that funds are redirected to programs that heal and educate the community by increasing the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The Phoenix PD is ranked highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians, and it is time defund them so we can invest in our community!
I am Haylee Stanage from Maricopa County in Arizona. I am a taxpayer, urging you to DEFUND THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT, the most lethal police department in the nation, in tomorrows budget vote. Release body camera footage of Dion Johnsons murder and arrest the officers involved. DIVEST FROM ICE. DIVEST FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT. Do not continue to allow the police to arrest peaceful protesters.
The council should consider reallocating funding of the Phoenix Police Department towards services that more adequately serve the community, such as public health, education, and rehabilitation services. Our militarized police currently contributes to the high rates of violence and criminality, and does not adequately protect and serve the community it claims to.
Hello, my name is Carson and I am resident of Arizona.
I am contacting you to reconsider the proposed $994,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to programs that heal and educate our community. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma.
Phoenix PD has a recorded of not acting in the interest of the community, even earning the title of deadliest police department in the country in 2018. They should be defunded and the money should be allocated to organizations and programs that will have a positive impact on the community.
I do not support allocating over $944 million dollars to the Phoenix Police Department. Our community is suffering from over-policing at the hands of the deadliest force in the country. Their violent response to this weekend's protests and unwillingness to provide answers regarding Dion Johnson's murder are making this very apparent. Please use our taxpayer dollars on programs, policies and resources that can rehabilitate the communities in our city that have been most impacted.
There are greater needs in our community than to increase the budget for the police department. Instead these funds can be allocated to support our schools and other community programs.
The Excessive Amount of funding going to policing is only proof of complete disregard for other and more predominate sources of unrest in our communities. While violence and crime does occur, it is the lack of resources and investment in mental health, education, housing and healthcare that negatively affects our brown and black communities. Redirect funds to direct and effective policies and programs that will create true and healthy environments for all civilians.
The council must reallocate funding from the Phoenix Police Department budget as PPD no longer serves the BIPOC communities it has sworn to protect. Instead, the council must fund the civilian review board to ensure that the community the police have sworn to "protect" are in fact, living up to the standards of its civilians. Police can not be permitted to protect and insulate themselves. Fully fund the civilian review board.
Defund the police. The state’s budget would best be spent on providing Phoenicians with access to affordable housing, education, reliable public transportation, and urgent public health services. The PPD, with its extensive history of racial profiling and high fatality count, is not keeping people safe. We need to pull support.
Re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Instead, increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. Phoenix needs policing alternatives and investments in mental health/trauma services, education/after-school care, housing, healthcare, & employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create a safe community.
DEFUND PHX PD. As the deadliest police department in the country, it is essential that they are defunded and the money instead allocated to health services, education, public transportation, small business relief, or any community program that will actually enrich and benefit the community instead of harming it. Especially in light of recent police violence against peaceful protestors, the PHX PD MUST BE DEFUNDED.
I am contacting you to reconsider the proposed $994,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to programs that heal and educate our community. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma.
My name is Luisa Zamora and I urge you to defund the police and use those funds to put them back into the community. Phoenix police is known to terrorize our community and misuse their funds. Instead, it would be more productive to fund education, affordable housing, affordable healthcare (including mental healthcare) and other resources to better our community.
Re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Instead, increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment.
Phoenix needs policing alternatives and investments in mental health/trauma services, education/after-school care, housing, healthcare, & employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create a safe community.
I strongly urge the City of Phoenix to review and severely decrease the amount of money allocated to the police force. Please consider investing in more peaceful and meaningful alternatives, such as mental health funding. As someone who lives in the greater Phoenix area, the actions and decisions of this city reflect on my life and the lives of many people.
Please redirect the funding of the police to humane human services. Our community needs help to heal, but not through arrests and jail time.
Our budget for law enforcement should not and cannot be reduced. Officers were mobilized over the weekend due to the lack of staff that to protect our city in a time of chaos. We are facing shortages due to hiring freezes and are risking the safety of our officers every day with current staffing levels. I am ashamed as a member of the city of Phoenix to witness us threaten the life safety of our community members by proposing a reduction in the budget for the city of Phoenix PD.
According to p. 14 of the Proposed Budget for 2020-21, Phoenix Police have been allocated $745,289,000 for expenditures. As a Valley resident, this money should be drastically reduced and redistributed to other areas of the community, such as Transportation, Community Development/Enrichment, and Environmental Services. The city of Phoenix needs alternatives to militarized policing; money set aside for riot gear, militarized equipment, and increased salaries can and should be spent elsewhere.
I urge the council to reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. As a community, we ask that funds are redirected to programs that heal and educate the community by increasing the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The Phoenix PD is ranked highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians, and it is time defund them so we can invest in our community!
I am Haylee Stanage from Maricopa County in Arizona. I am a taxpayer, urging you to DEFUND THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT, the most lethal police department in the nation, in tomorrows budget vote. Release body camera footage of Dion Johnsons murder and arrest the officers involved. DIVEST FROM ICE. DIVEST FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT. Do not continue to allow the police to arrest peaceful protesters.
Defund or decrease funds for the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create and sustain a safe community.
The council should consider reallocating funding of the Phoenix Police Department towards services that more adequately serve the community, such as public health, education, and rehabilitation services. Our militarized police currently contributes to the high rates of violence and criminality, and does not adequately protect and serve the community it claims to.
Hello, my name is Carson and I am resident of Arizona.
I am contacting you to reconsider the proposed $994,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to programs that heal and educate our community. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma.
Phoenix PD has a recorded of not acting in the interest of the community, even earning the title of deadliest police department in the country in 2018. They should be defunded and the money should be allocated to organizations and programs that will have a positive impact on the community.
I do not support allocating over $944 million dollars to the Phoenix Police Department. Our community is suffering from over-policing at the hands of the deadliest force in the country. Their violent response to this weekend's protests and unwillingness to provide answers regarding Dion Johnson's murder are making this very apparent. Please use our taxpayer dollars on programs, policies and resources that can rehabilitate the communities in our city that have been most impacted.
There are greater needs in our community than to increase the budget for the police department. Instead these funds can be allocated to support our schools and other community programs.
The Excessive Amount of funding going to policing is only proof of complete disregard for other and more predominate sources of unrest in our communities. While violence and crime does occur, it is the lack of resources and investment in mental health, education, housing and healthcare that negatively affects our brown and black communities. Redirect funds to direct and effective policies and programs that will create true and healthy environments for all civilians.
The council must reallocate funding from the Phoenix Police Department budget as PPD no longer serves the BIPOC communities it has sworn to protect. Instead, the council must fund the civilian review board to ensure that the community the police have sworn to "protect" are in fact, living up to the standards of its civilians. Police can not be permitted to protect and insulate themselves. Fully fund the civilian review board.
Defund the police. The state’s budget would best be spent on providing Phoenicians with access to affordable housing, education, reliable public transportation, and urgent public health services. The PPD, with its extensive history of racial profiling and high fatality count, is not keeping people safe. We need to pull support.