An increase in the Phoenix PD budget is not the way to ensure the safety and well-being of all of your constituents. These funds should be reallocated to housing, education, public transit, and mental/public health services. This budget fails the services that actually enrich this community and lead to real change.
The council should vote against excessive funding for the Phoenix PD. This money should be used for education and rebuilding our community rather than be funneled into an organization that has consistently shown itself to be violent, untrained, and incapable of making ALL Phoenix/Arizona residents feel safe. This means reforming the police with a smaller budget, to help our community and act as a pioneer of change in Arizona.
My name Abigail Verdugo. I urge you to defund Phoenix PD.
The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma services, education and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities.
Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create and sustain a safe community.
I was born/raised in Phoenix, AZ and I have yet to have an experience with a police officer that made me feel safe and protected. The City Council needs to defund the PHX PD. We have prioritized PHX PD needs for too long, and they have proven they’re inadequate to public safety. We need these funds to be reallocated towards community development and enrichment services. Invest in communities by providing them with proper resources such housing, education, health care and mental health services.
Simply, more change now. My views+so many other's views on what community safety/support should look like have rapidly changed to finally realize we cannot wait (hence opposing). Traditional policing to handle many of the city's problems severely impacts our black/brown neighbors the most and is not in the best interest of police officers in many situations. Moving the $25M increase to specialized+unarmed responders is a start. Root cause funding needs to be next (e.g., mental health services).
With the most recent and reoccuring events of police brutality, I am uncomfortable with the proposed General Fund Budget given to Public Safety. This proposed amount to Public Safety is enormous compared to the other departments. It would put me at ease to see the proposed Public Safety budget significantly reduced and distributed towards departments that will continue to push our communities forward, such as Community Development and Community Enrichment.
The funding set for the Phoenix PD needs to be reallocated to programs that actually help our community instead of harming it. Please listen to the community and vote no!!
We need the attention and funds located elsewhere... not towards the police. Please really hear us out and let’s push for change towards our community. That being said, I oppose this budget.
I oppose this position and am quite frankly tired of money being funneled into a system that intimidated our community instead of helping at any level.
Why does 42% of the city's general funds go to the Phoenix Police Department? Why the need for almost half of the budget to go to one department? It doesn't make any sense.
I oppose this current budget proposal along with many in our community. The budget should be allocated to the community, housing, education, mental health services, and many other things that will benefit the community.
Please listen to the many who oppose the current budget. We're the community you claim to serve. Listen.
I can believe we are here again. We the people have made it very clear that we do not want to see any increase in the police budget. Vote no on this slap in the face budget.
I oppose this budget. The cops don’t protect and serve us. The money should be invested into education, mental health services and community development.
The City Council needs to defund the Phoenix PD this institution has contributed to countless injustices towards the Black and Brown Community. We have prioritized PHX PD needs for too long, and they have proven their inadequate to public safety. We need these funds to be reallocated towards community development and enrichment services. Invest in Black and Brown communities by providing them with proper resources such housing, education, health care and mental health services.
As someone born, raised, and continuing to live in Arizona, I demand this budget does not pass without massive cuts to the funding of our violent and bloated police forces. The Arizona police departments and historically-awful sheriffs department need to be defunded. The millions in wasted tax dollars should be moved into various community-focused services to offset and eventually fully replace the need for the police.
I demand that the City Council vote NO on the proposed 2020-21 budget on June 17th. Teachers are equipped in their classroom without the need of student donations and grants (something I saw firsthand growing up in Phoenix), not an increase in police funding. Especially in the middle of a pandemic, the $242 million to housing, human services, and community development is abhorrently low and NOT enough. The $745 million spent on policing should be moved to these resources and to education.
Reallocate the proposed funding for the Phoenix PD into the community. As a citizen of Phoenix, business owner, MCCD student and employee, and frequent library attendant I am negatively impacted by the lack of attention and funding these institutions are forced to settle with. As a black women I fear the safety of my family as the presidency of policing drives the city budget. Hear your community’s pleas. Make things right and push for change.
I oppose this budget proposal. The budget for community and social programs that can actually improve the lives of minorities pale in comparison to the bloated budget of the PHX PD. Arizona police have a long history of racially targeting and killing black and brown lives at disproportionate rates (in comparison to their population size). This must change.
I strongly oppose the funding of the police and urge you to reallocate those funds to other services that will benefit our community, such as education, mental health, and youth programs.
An increase in the Phoenix PD budget is not the way to ensure the safety and well-being of all of your constituents. These funds should be reallocated to housing, education, public transit, and mental/public health services. This budget fails the services that actually enrich this community and lead to real change.
The council should vote against excessive funding for the Phoenix PD. This money should be used for education and rebuilding our community rather than be funneled into an organization that has consistently shown itself to be violent, untrained, and incapable of making ALL Phoenix/Arizona residents feel safe. This means reforming the police with a smaller budget, to help our community and act as a pioneer of change in Arizona.
Hello,
My name Abigail Verdugo. I urge you to defund Phoenix PD.
The city of Phoenix needs and deserves policing alternatives and investments in mental health and trauma services, education and after-school care, adequate housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities.
Defund the Phoenix PD and allocate 2020-21 city funds to policies and programs that will create and sustain a safe community.
Sincerely,
Abigail Verdugo
I was born/raised in Phoenix, AZ and I have yet to have an experience with a police officer that made me feel safe and protected. The City Council needs to defund the PHX PD. We have prioritized PHX PD needs for too long, and they have proven they’re inadequate to public safety. We need these funds to be reallocated towards community development and enrichment services. Invest in communities by providing them with proper resources such housing, education, health care and mental health services.
Simply, more change now. My views+so many other's views on what community safety/support should look like have rapidly changed to finally realize we cannot wait (hence opposing). Traditional policing to handle many of the city's problems severely impacts our black/brown neighbors the most and is not in the best interest of police officers in many situations. Moving the $25M increase to specialized+unarmed responders is a start. Root cause funding needs to be next (e.g., mental health services).
With the most recent and reoccuring events of police brutality, I am uncomfortable with the proposed General Fund Budget given to Public Safety. This proposed amount to Public Safety is enormous compared to the other departments. It would put me at ease to see the proposed Public Safety budget significantly reduced and distributed towards departments that will continue to push our communities forward, such as Community Development and Community Enrichment.
The funding set for the Phoenix PD needs to be reallocated to programs that actually help our community instead of harming it. Please listen to the community and vote no!!
We need the attention and funds located elsewhere... not towards the police. Please really hear us out and let’s push for change towards our community. That being said, I oppose this budget.
I oppose this position and am quite frankly tired of money being funneled into a system that intimidated our community instead of helping at any level.
Council, please vote no on $744 Million for Phx PD!
Why does 42% of the city's general funds go to the Phoenix Police Department? Why the need for almost half of the budget to go to one department? It doesn't make any sense.
I oppose this current budget proposal along with many in our community. The budget should be allocated to the community, housing, education, mental health services, and many other things that will benefit the community.
Please listen to the many who oppose the current budget. We're the community you claim to serve. Listen.
I can believe we are here again. We the people have made it very clear that we do not want to see any increase in the police budget. Vote no on this slap in the face budget.
I oppose this budget. The cops don’t protect and serve us. The money should be invested into education, mental health services and community development.
The City Council needs to defund the Phoenix PD this institution has contributed to countless injustices towards the Black and Brown Community. We have prioritized PHX PD needs for too long, and they have proven their inadequate to public safety. We need these funds to be reallocated towards community development and enrichment services. Invest in Black and Brown communities by providing them with proper resources such housing, education, health care and mental health services.
As someone born, raised, and continuing to live in Arizona, I demand this budget does not pass without massive cuts to the funding of our violent and bloated police forces. The Arizona police departments and historically-awful sheriffs department need to be defunded. The millions in wasted tax dollars should be moved into various community-focused services to offset and eventually fully replace the need for the police.
#PhoenixVotesNo
I demand that the City Council vote NO on the proposed 2020-21 budget on June 17th. Teachers are equipped in their classroom without the need of student donations and grants (something I saw firsthand growing up in Phoenix), not an increase in police funding. Especially in the middle of a pandemic, the $242 million to housing, human services, and community development is abhorrently low and NOT enough. The $745 million spent on policing should be moved to these resources and to education.
Reallocate the proposed funding for the Phoenix PD into the community. As a citizen of Phoenix, business owner, MCCD student and employee, and frequent library attendant I am negatively impacted by the lack of attention and funding these institutions are forced to settle with. As a black women I fear the safety of my family as the presidency of policing drives the city budget. Hear your community’s pleas. Make things right and push for change.
I oppose this budget proposal. The budget for community and social programs that can actually improve the lives of minorities pale in comparison to the bloated budget of the PHX PD. Arizona police have a long history of racially targeting and killing black and brown lives at disproportionate rates (in comparison to their population size). This must change.
I strongly oppose the funding of the police and urge you to reallocate those funds to other services that will benefit our community, such as education, mental health, and youth programs.