I urge the council to reallocate funding from the police expansion budget to community-based initiatives, rehabilitation services, public health, housing, education, and local organizations working to strengthen our community without perpetuating violence and racism. The AZ DPS officer who murdered Dion Johnson was not equipped with a cam, showing a misappropriation of funds. We have millions of people unemployed during a pandemic. The community need the funds more than the police do.
Reallocate the $944,680,555 budget to programs that help us grow. There is no reasonable explanation for Phoenix PD to receive this funding when they statistically rank highest in cases of police caused civilian deaths. There are mentalh health, housing, and healthcare depts. That would benefit much more from these funds to create more awareness and provide support for our diverse community. What we put into our communities today contributes to our world tomorrow. Let's do better.
It is time to defund the police and reallocate resources to support long overdue civilian oversight. I urge the Phoenix City Council to allocate at least $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget.
Please consider reallocating funds from public safety to community development and enrichment. Strong communities don’t require a heavy police presence.
Environmental services, community development, and community enrichment are vastly underfunded in relation to public safety. Police brutality has been immensely destructive for all communities within this country, and Phoenix is not immune. Let's choose to be proactive by investing in our community and educating our future (including future police officers) so that we will not need to utilize and spend on the police as much. Community development/enrichment limit discrimination = less violence.
As a resident of Phoenix AZ, I insist that this budget must fully fund a civilian oversight model for Phoenix Police Department that is independent, investigative, transparent, and community driven. Police should have nothing to hide, if they are doing nothing wrong.
As a new resident of Phoenix, I'm appalled at the waste of money going into this police department, which has one of the highest rates of police-civilian killings in the nation. This budget is bloated and you must defund this wasteful department. Invest that money instead if housing, job creation, improving infrastructure, public education, community development, and fighting climate change.
Please reconsider the $944 million dollar budget for the Phoenix PD. This money needs to be reallocated to our community in helping our disenfranchised citizens. The very last thing this community needs is more militarized police officers that are prohibiting our rights to free speech, they only incite further unnecessary violence. Defund the Phoenix PD
We should let our council members know that we don’t support a budget that funds the police like that and doesn’t adequately fund civilian oversight or transparency measures. This budget also doesn’t contain the previously allocated money for Civilian Oversight that was approved - we need that back now more than ever. 745M for a violent police force is NOT necessary under any circumstances.
DEFUND PHXPD. PHXPD has continuously proven itself to be a cruel, corrupt, violent, and RACIST weapon of the state used against its people. PHXPD is funded by people that work hard for their money. PHXPDis funded by people that it is intended to protect. PHXPD instead harasses, attacks, hunts, and kills those people. PHXPD does not need, nor do they deserve, the vast majority of our cities financial resources. Put that money into social services where it belongs. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
"Public Safety" comprises over half the total budget, yet the Phoenix PD is among the deadliest in the nation. Councilman DiCiccio was quoted by the NYT in Dec. 2018 claiming that "We have a more violent population." No, in fact, we do not. Phoenix crime stats are comparable to those from other cities of similar size. Phoenix PD is not keeping the public safe, and those funds should be diverted to community development and community enrichment programs.
As an Arizona tax payer, I urge you to not give the Phoenix PD the $994 million proposed, and instead reallocate those funds to things like public education, transport, housing and healthcare. The Phoenix police have statistically some of the highest civilian death counts in the country, and this cannot continue. Defund the police. Use the money in a better way, to create a safer community. Protect the citizens, not the cops who kill them.
Please reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to Phoenix PD for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves investments in mental health and trauma services, education and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare and employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate funds to policies & programs that will create and sustain a safe community.
This money needs to go back into the community. I urge you to reconsider their budget and realize that if you truly want to combat violence in Phoenix, promote initiatives and organizations dedicated to help our poorer citizens. Poverty causes problems and the only way to eliminate these problems is to combat POVERTY. People are going hungry and this money could help get food on tables
The Phoenix police department should not be rewarded for their hostile treatment of the communities they've sworn to serve. The tear-gassing, mass round-ups, and imprisoning of peaceful activists over the last 7 days is a disgrace- a profound violation of our Constitutional rights.Combine this flagrant disregard for the health and well-being of the public with the department's documented history of civilian killings and it paints the picture of a department that decency DEMANDS we defund.
Defund the police. Listen to your community members. Funds need to be invested back into the community for education (schools and to pay teachers more) mental health resources, adequate housing & healthcare.
This budget fails to provide funds necessary to establish civilian oversight of the police and reign in the terror imposed upon the people by a murderous and militarized police force. The Governor and the President have declared war on the American people. The City of Phoenix should take care to ensure that local government is the most responsive and most responsible form of government. But Phoenix has done nothing to change the police culture. This budget is a failure and will endanger people.
I urge you to re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. 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 urge the council to reallocate funding from the police expansion budget to community-based initiatives, rehabilitation services, public health, housing, education, and local organizations working to strengthen our community without perpetuating violence and racism. The AZ DPS officer who murdered Dion Johnson was not equipped with a cam, showing a misappropriation of funds. We have millions of people unemployed during a pandemic. The community need the funds more than the police do.
Reallocate the $944,680,555 budget to programs that help us grow. There is no reasonable explanation for Phoenix PD to receive this funding when they statistically rank highest in cases of police caused civilian deaths. There are mentalh health, housing, and healthcare depts. That would benefit much more from these funds to create more awareness and provide support for our diverse community. What we put into our communities today contributes to our world tomorrow. Let's do better.
It is time to defund the police and reallocate resources to support long overdue civilian oversight. I urge the Phoenix City Council to allocate at least $3 million to the Office of Accountability and Transparency and Civilian Review Board in the 2020 - 2021 budget.
Please consider reallocating funds from public safety to community development and enrichment. Strong communities don’t require a heavy police presence.
Environmental services, community development, and community enrichment are vastly underfunded in relation to public safety. Police brutality has been immensely destructive for all communities within this country, and Phoenix is not immune. Let's choose to be proactive by investing in our community and educating our future (including future police officers) so that we will not need to utilize and spend on the police as much. Community development/enrichment limit discrimination = less violence.
As a resident of Phoenix AZ, I insist that this budget must fully fund a civilian oversight model for Phoenix Police Department that is independent, investigative, transparent, and community driven. Police should have nothing to hide, if they are doing nothing wrong.
As a new resident of Phoenix, I'm appalled at the waste of money going into this police department, which has one of the highest rates of police-civilian killings in the nation. This budget is bloated and you must defund this wasteful department. Invest that money instead if housing, job creation, improving infrastructure, public education, community development, and fighting climate change.
Please reconsider the $944 million dollar budget for the Phoenix PD. This money needs to be reallocated to our community in helping our disenfranchised citizens. The very last thing this community needs is more militarized police officers that are prohibiting our rights to free speech, they only incite further unnecessary violence. Defund the Phoenix PD
We should let our council members know that we don’t support a budget that funds the police like that and doesn’t adequately fund civilian oversight or transparency measures. This budget also doesn’t contain the previously allocated money for Civilian Oversight that was approved - we need that back now more than ever. 745M for a violent police force is NOT necessary under any circumstances.
DEFUND PHXPD. PHXPD has continuously proven itself to be a cruel, corrupt, violent, and RACIST weapon of the state used against its people. PHXPD is funded by people that work hard for their money. PHXPDis funded by people that it is intended to protect. PHXPD instead harasses, attacks, hunts, and kills those people. PHXPD does not need, nor do they deserve, the vast majority of our cities financial resources. Put that money into social services where it belongs. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
"Public Safety" comprises over half the total budget, yet the Phoenix PD is among the deadliest in the nation. Councilman DiCiccio was quoted by the NYT in Dec. 2018 claiming that "We have a more violent population." No, in fact, we do not. Phoenix crime stats are comparable to those from other cities of similar size. Phoenix PD is not keeping the public safe, and those funds should be diverted to community development and community enrichment programs.
As an Arizona tax payer, I urge you to not give the Phoenix PD the $994 million proposed, and instead reallocate those funds to things like public education, transport, housing and healthcare. The Phoenix police have statistically some of the highest civilian death counts in the country, and this cannot continue. Defund the police. Use the money in a better way, to create a safer community. Protect the citizens, not the cops who kill them.
Please allocate a higher percentage of funds to community improvement, support, enrichment, development, education.
Please reconsider the proposed $944,680,555 allocated to Phoenix PD for the 2020-21 fiscal year. Increase the proposed $24,760,742 and $26,837,014 budgets for community development and community enrichment. The city of Phoenix needs and deserves investments in mental health and trauma services, education and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare and employment opportunities. Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate funds to policies & programs that will create and sustain a safe community.
This money needs to go back into the community. I urge you to reconsider their budget and realize that if you truly want to combat violence in Phoenix, promote initiatives and organizations dedicated to help our poorer citizens. Poverty causes problems and the only way to eliminate these problems is to combat POVERTY. People are going hungry and this money could help get food on tables
These funds would be much better spent on education, mental health care, and other topics to have a much more rounded, just system for our state
The Phoenix police department should not be rewarded for their hostile treatment of the communities they've sworn to serve. The tear-gassing, mass round-ups, and imprisoning of peaceful activists over the last 7 days is a disgrace- a profound violation of our Constitutional rights.Combine this flagrant disregard for the health and well-being of the public with the department's documented history of civilian killings and it paints the picture of a department that decency DEMANDS we defund.
Defund the police. Listen to your community members. Funds need to be invested back into the community for education (schools and to pay teachers more) mental health resources, adequate housing & healthcare.
This budget fails to provide funds necessary to establish civilian oversight of the police and reign in the terror imposed upon the people by a murderous and militarized police force. The Governor and the President have declared war on the American people. The City of Phoenix should take care to ensure that local government is the most responsive and most responsible form of government. But Phoenix has done nothing to change the police culture. This budget is a failure and will endanger people.
I urge you to re-allocate the proposed $944,680,555 to our public safety department for the 2020-21 fiscal year. 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.