I strongly oppose the proposed funding for Public Safety. Rather, the funding should be dramatically reduced and reallocated to support community development projects. The Phoenix Police Department has proven time and time again to be unreliable and destructive. Rather than reward them for their corruption, money should be taken from them and used to increase access to health care, education, and other things that will build our city up rather than tear it down.
I oppose the proposed funding. Instead, the funding should be allocated to Phoenix education and other community services meant to enrich the community. Also, end police brutality.
I do not support the proposed budget for public safety. Instead, we should allocate those funds to proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and enrichment. According to an advocacy group called Mapping Police Violence, in Scottsdale, AZ, the rate at which police killed black men was higher than the US murder rate. I urge you to take a look at these comments and listen to what the people you are creating these agendas for are demanding. Fund what is really necessary
As a Phoenix resident, I am opposed to the funding proposed for Phoenix PD. Instead, this funding should be reallocated and invested in community development and support programs that truly make our communities safe and healthy. We need to put an end to police brutality.
I oppose the massive funding of public safety given that Phoenix PD has not shown the capacity or compassion to be able to protect the community. Instead, I support increase funding of community development and enrichment.
I oppose this tentative budget and demand the allocation of these funds to the community, to the black community impacted the most by the racist and violent actions of the PPD - the most violent police force in the nation - and to social services that would protect our city from a violent police that jails the mentally ill and homeless without providing them resources.
I strongly oppose the budget allocation of funding towards the Phoenix Police Department under the pretense of public safety. The code that the police swear to uphold to protect and serve is not True but instead decide to teargas it’s citizens and withhold information dealing Dion Johnson case from the public. We could use these funds for education, public spaces, transposition, and highlighted during pandemic a increase funds to public health to help the fight against Covid-19.
I believe that this budget proposition is putting money towards the wrong issues. Our police department is more than sufficiently funded - please consider rather than continuing to over-fund the Phoenix police, allocating that money towards the programs that enrich our communities, keeping our neighbors safe and healthy.
I strongly oppose efforts to increase funding to the Phoenix Police Department and instead ask you to commit to fully funding the Police Civilian Review Board. If there was ever a moment to show leadership, recognize the real problems and disparate impact generated by police violence on communities of color, and move us towards accountability and reform, this is the moment. Please leverage your power for good, for justice, and for the change we need to see here at home and across the country.
I strongly oppose this over-funding of Phoenix police department, with their proven record of harming communities of color. These funds should be allocated into community development. If the goal is crime reduction, look at the statistics - punitive systems do not work, community health does.
ACCIDENTALLY but support on 1st comment but I strongly OPPOSE increasing the budget for the Phoenix PD. Instead, these funds should be allocated to departments that directly benefit the community, such as the education system and public health.
The PPD and police unions need to be evaluated. The police needs to serve our community and be subject to the same accountability we have as citizens. Bad cops should not be protected. Misconduct information needs to be public. The PPD should not be funded until they address these issues.
Please allocate $4mil to law enforcement, $3mil to the civilian police oversight board, and the remaining funds that were intended for law enforcement to city employee implicit bias training, promotion of diverse hiring/retention/promotion employee practices, education, mental health infrastructure/training, and toward ending homelessness.
I very strongly oppose the disproportionate allocation of a nearly $1B budget for the Phoenix Police Department. These funds could better serve the community by providing resources through community development and enrichment, among other things.
The funds need to go toward other things, like the Citizens Oversight committee which was approved but has not even been started. The police are still working - why shouldn’t the committee? The money toward the police needs to go to supporting the marginalized of our society. More support for minority voices in our community.
The Phoenix Police Department recently led the nation in the number of officer-involved shootings. We shouldn't reward that type of behavior by increasing the PPD budget. Let them do better with what they have. Let them listen to our community and make improvements in the way that they treat human beings before we give them more. Let the OAT improve the PPD through accountability and transparency before we give more to PPD. Otherwise, we will only get more of the same.
I oppose the budget allocation to the Phoenix Police Department. They do not help the community and only cause harm, funds should be used for education, first responders, medical and mental health.
There no evidence that the Phoenix PD is currently using the money as well as they should be. Throwing good money after bad has never worked. The current response to the demonstrations have shown that. The monies are better allocated to the Phoenix schools
I strongly oppose the proposed funding for Public Safety. Rather, the funding should be dramatically reduced and reallocated to support community development projects. The Phoenix Police Department has proven time and time again to be unreliable and destructive. Rather than reward them for their corruption, money should be taken from them and used to increase access to health care, education, and other things that will build our city up rather than tear it down.
I oppose the proposed funding. Instead, the funding should be allocated to Phoenix education and other community services meant to enrich the community. Also, end police brutality.
I do not support the proposed budget for public safety. Instead, we should allocate those funds to proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and enrichment. According to an advocacy group called Mapping Police Violence, in Scottsdale, AZ, the rate at which police killed black men was higher than the US murder rate. I urge you to take a look at these comments and listen to what the people you are creating these agendas for are demanding. Fund what is really necessary
As a Phoenix resident, I am opposed to the funding proposed for Phoenix PD. Instead, this funding should be reallocated and invested in community development and support programs that truly make our communities safe and healthy. We need to put an end to police brutality.
I oppose the massive funding of public safety given that Phoenix PD has not shown the capacity or compassion to be able to protect the community. Instead, I support increase funding of community development and enrichment.
I oppose this tentative budget and demand the allocation of these funds to the community, to the black community impacted the most by the racist and violent actions of the PPD - the most violent police force in the nation - and to social services that would protect our city from a violent police that jails the mentally ill and homeless without providing them resources.
I strongly oppose the budget allocation of funding towards the Phoenix Police Department under the pretense of public safety. The code that the police swear to uphold to protect and serve is not True but instead decide to teargas it’s citizens and withhold information dealing Dion Johnson case from the public. We could use these funds for education, public spaces, transposition, and highlighted during pandemic a increase funds to public health to help the fight against Covid-19.
I believe that this budget proposition is putting money towards the wrong issues. Our police department is more than sufficiently funded - please consider rather than continuing to over-fund the Phoenix police, allocating that money towards the programs that enrich our communities, keeping our neighbors safe and healthy.
I strongly oppose efforts to increase funding to the Phoenix Police Department and instead ask you to commit to fully funding the Police Civilian Review Board. If there was ever a moment to show leadership, recognize the real problems and disparate impact generated by police violence on communities of color, and move us towards accountability and reform, this is the moment. Please leverage your power for good, for justice, and for the change we need to see here at home and across the country.
I strongly oppose this over-funding of Phoenix police department, with their proven record of harming communities of color. These funds should be allocated into community development. If the goal is crime reduction, look at the statistics - punitive systems do not work, community health does.
Defund PHX PD!
ACCIDENTALLY but support on 1st comment but I strongly OPPOSE increasing the budget for the Phoenix PD. Instead, these funds should be allocated to departments that directly benefit the community, such as the education system and public health.
The PPD and police unions need to be evaluated. The police needs to serve our community and be subject to the same accountability we have as citizens. Bad cops should not be protected. Misconduct information needs to be public. The PPD should not be funded until they address these issues.
Please allocate $4mil to law enforcement, $3mil to the civilian police oversight board, and the remaining funds that were intended for law enforcement to city employee implicit bias training, promotion of diverse hiring/retention/promotion employee practices, education, mental health infrastructure/training, and toward ending homelessness.
I very strongly oppose the disproportionate allocation of a nearly $1B budget for the Phoenix Police Department. These funds could better serve the community by providing resources through community development and enrichment, among other things.
The funds need to go toward other things, like the Citizens Oversight committee which was approved but has not even been started. The police are still working - why shouldn’t the committee? The money toward the police needs to go to supporting the marginalized of our society. More support for minority voices in our community.
The Phoenix Police Department recently led the nation in the number of officer-involved shootings. We shouldn't reward that type of behavior by increasing the PPD budget. Let them do better with what they have. Let them listen to our community and make improvements in the way that they treat human beings before we give them more. Let the OAT improve the PPD through accountability and transparency before we give more to PPD. Otherwise, we will only get more of the same.
I oppose the budget allocation to the Phoenix Police Department. They do not help the community and only cause harm, funds should be used for education, first responders, medical and mental health.
I oppose this budget. Reallocate funds for public safety to community development.
There no evidence that the Phoenix PD is currently using the money as well as they should be. Throwing good money after bad has never worked. The current response to the demonstrations have shown that. The monies are better allocated to the Phoenix schools