I oppose the allocation of $944,680,555 for “public safety.” Crime in Phoenix has decreased at 3% in 2018. There are much better ways of spending this money: Education (our teachers have been forgotten), mental illness (is plaguing Phoenicians), homelessness is a huge problem in Phoenix. We need more help for our citizens. Not more police. I might add, police that are one of the most violent in the United States especially against unarmed citizens.
I absolutely do not agree with Phoenix PD getting any extra money. Being one of the most dangerous forces in the country calls for DEFUNDING. I'm calling for Phoenix to cut ALL OVERTIME PAY, lay off cops with violent records, and weaken the warmongering force that is Phoenix PD. ALL cops are bastards.
You cannot, in good faith, represent the people's interests if you choose to direct funds to the Phoenix Police Department. Arizona will not experience positive change until the means of authoritative violent power are deconstructed and means of nonviolent citizen-based power are instituted.
We cannot afford to increase the PPD budget by $25 million when our community needs to increase funding for vital community services like childcare, affordable housing, and health services. I strongly oppose allocating $944,680,555 to the police and demand that funding be reallocated to civilian oversight of the police and to services that serve the true needs of our community and make us safer and healthier.
I am an 18 year old resident of Phoenix, and I demand that the Phoenix City Council allocate $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget. Please consider the facts that Arizona is ranked as the 3rd highest in police brutality, and Phoenix's public safety would benefit from allocating funds to community services and education over policing programs that are not creating a safe community.
I support funding the Phoenix Police and Fire Department. Phoenix is a large city that needs a large police department and fire department. We need to keep the city safe.
I strongly oppose the budget. The Phoenix Police Department has one of the highest records of police-involved shootings in the nation. The police should be defunded and funds should be allocated to community-based sectors like community development and enrichment. Investments in mental health and trauma services, education, and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities would be infinitely better than giving the police more money to further abuse their power.
Requesting reallocation of funding to reflect the worth and value of community health and well being by: full funding of the CRB and OAT to support accountability and transparency; by ending police collaboration with ICE and stand up against racial profiling; by funding programs and services that support community health not raises for police. A budget is not an act of faith, it is a commitment to engage, educate, serve and support our community, for the health and welfare of all.
Please reconsider the proposed budget allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
The money would be better spent if allocated to funding community health and education initiatives that serve the greater Phoneix community, including our most disenfranchised populations.
The City of Phoenix Police Department is statistically ranked one of the highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians. Please reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 20-21 Fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma services, education, after-school care, adequate housing, and employment services. Please allocate $3 million to the Civilian Review Board.
It is the city's duty to keep the public safe. The Phoenix police department is over worked, under funded and under staffed. It is complete absurdity to take anything away from a department that is stretched thin as it is. I support Phoenix police. Special interest, bipartisan hate groups have to business holding the budget hostage to fit their agenda.
PHXPD is one of the most lethal in the nation - increasing their budget during a pandemic is not the answer. I Do the right thing for our communities and defund police - cut their budget and give that back to the communities they hurt the most. Put it towards affordable housing, mental health services, youth programs, food programs - all things that help address inequalities and inequities in the first place that directly affect black people of color in our community.
Our community asks that you redirect funds from police to programs that heal and educate our community. The City of Phoenix is statistically ranked highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians. Police forces across the country have proven that diversifying and implementing trainings have not and will not end police brutality. The City of Phoenix deserves policing alternatives and investment in healthcare, environmental/sustainability issues, and affordable housing.
I am an Arizona resident, and strongly urge you to reconsider the proposed funds allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect those funds to programs that heal and educate our community, rather than to more police equipment and police initiatives that clearly support an organization that is, in many ways, corrupt, immoral, and un-trained in humanity. Thank you.
I oppose an increase in budget to Phoenix Police. I am compelled to ask the city council to fund a civilian review board for the police. Phoenix PD is one of the deadliest in our country. Please redirect funds to opportunities to heal and rebuild in our community.
Do not allocate $944,680,555 to public safety, redistribute those dollars, into quality health care programs, food access, education, accessible housing, and recreation for our children. Phoenix Police Department is the highest in the US for cases of police killing civilians. We need to fund the Community Review Board now, and invest in enriching our communities, not in criminalizing them!
I demand that the Phoenix City Council allocate $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget.
I SUPPORT FUNDING THE POLICE! I support funding more School Resource Officers and more Community Action Officers!! God Bless our police. Let’s put more Cops in our schools and community so they have more positive interaction together!!
I strongly oppose the budget that allocates most of its funds to police and not to services that help the people in our community. We are still in a global pandemic--we need healthcare. We need mental health and trauma care. We need affordable housing. We need education and employment opportunities. We do not need nearly one billion dollars that will continue to empower the infamous PPD to abuse their authority.
I oppose the allocation of $944,680,555 for “public safety.” Crime in Phoenix has decreased at 3% in 2018. There are much better ways of spending this money: Education (our teachers have been forgotten), mental illness (is plaguing Phoenicians), homelessness is a huge problem in Phoenix. We need more help for our citizens. Not more police. I might add, police that are one of the most violent in the United States especially against unarmed citizens.
I absolutely do not agree with Phoenix PD getting any extra money. Being one of the most dangerous forces in the country calls for DEFUNDING. I'm calling for Phoenix to cut ALL OVERTIME PAY, lay off cops with violent records, and weaken the warmongering force that is Phoenix PD. ALL cops are bastards.
You cannot, in good faith, represent the people's interests if you choose to direct funds to the Phoenix Police Department. Arizona will not experience positive change until the means of authoritative violent power are deconstructed and means of nonviolent citizen-based power are instituted.
We cannot afford to increase the PPD budget by $25 million when our community needs to increase funding for vital community services like childcare, affordable housing, and health services. I strongly oppose allocating $944,680,555 to the police and demand that funding be reallocated to civilian oversight of the police and to services that serve the true needs of our community and make us safer and healthier.
I am an 18 year old resident of Phoenix, and I demand that the Phoenix City Council allocate $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget. Please consider the facts that Arizona is ranked as the 3rd highest in police brutality, and Phoenix's public safety would benefit from allocating funds to community services and education over policing programs that are not creating a safe community.
I support funding the Phoenix Police and Fire Department. Phoenix is a large city that needs a large police department and fire department. We need to keep the city safe.
I strongly oppose the budget. The Phoenix Police Department has one of the highest records of police-involved shootings in the nation. The police should be defunded and funds should be allocated to community-based sectors like community development and enrichment. Investments in mental health and trauma services, education, and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities would be infinitely better than giving the police more money to further abuse their power.
Requesting reallocation of funding to reflect the worth and value of community health and well being by: full funding of the CRB and OAT to support accountability and transparency; by ending police collaboration with ICE and stand up against racial profiling; by funding programs and services that support community health not raises for police. A budget is not an act of faith, it is a commitment to engage, educate, serve and support our community, for the health and welfare of all.
Please reconsider the proposed budget allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
The money would be better spent if allocated to funding community health and education initiatives that serve the greater Phoneix community, including our most disenfranchised populations.
The City of Phoenix Police Department is statistically ranked one of the highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians. Please reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to our public safety department for the 20-21 Fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect funds to policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma services, education, after-school care, adequate housing, and employment services. Please allocate $3 million to the Civilian Review Board.
It is the city's duty to keep the public safe. The Phoenix police department is over worked, under funded and under staffed. It is complete absurdity to take anything away from a department that is stretched thin as it is. I support Phoenix police. Special interest, bipartisan hate groups have to business holding the budget hostage to fit their agenda.
PHXPD is one of the most lethal in the nation - increasing their budget during a pandemic is not the answer. I Do the right thing for our communities and defund police - cut their budget and give that back to the communities they hurt the most. Put it towards affordable housing, mental health services, youth programs, food programs - all things that help address inequalities and inequities in the first place that directly affect black people of color in our community.
Our community asks that you redirect funds from police to programs that heal and educate our community. The City of Phoenix is statistically ranked highest in the country for cases of police killing civilians. Police forces across the country have proven that diversifying and implementing trainings have not and will not end police brutality. The City of Phoenix deserves policing alternatives and investment in healthcare, environmental/sustainability issues, and affordable housing.
I am an Arizona resident, and strongly urge you to reconsider the proposed funds allocated to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Our community asks that you redirect those funds to programs that heal and educate our community, rather than to more police equipment and police initiatives that clearly support an organization that is, in many ways, corrupt, immoral, and un-trained in humanity. Thank you.
I oppose an increase in budget to Phoenix Police. I am compelled to ask the city council to fund a civilian review board for the police. Phoenix PD is one of the deadliest in our country. Please redirect funds to opportunities to heal and rebuild in our community.
Do not allocate $944,680,555 to public safety, redistribute those dollars, into quality health care programs, food access, education, accessible housing, and recreation for our children. Phoenix Police Department is the highest in the US for cases of police killing civilians. We need to fund the Community Review Board now, and invest in enriching our communities, not in criminalizing them!
I demand that the Phoenix City Council allocate $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget.
I oppose a budget increase to the Phoenix police department.
I SUPPORT FUNDING THE POLICE! I support funding more School Resource Officers and more Community Action Officers!! God Bless our police. Let’s put more Cops in our schools and community so they have more positive interaction together!!
I strongly oppose the budget that allocates most of its funds to police and not to services that help the people in our community. We are still in a global pandemic--we need healthcare. We need mental health and trauma care. We need affordable housing. We need education and employment opportunities. We do not need nearly one billion dollars that will continue to empower the infamous PPD to abuse their authority.