Police are charging Phoenix citizens overtime to saturate peaceful marches with armed officers and officers with special equipment. They have cost $12 million!
Meanwhile, the courts throw out the majority of arrests made at peaceful marches and protests, demonstrating that police are using these tactics to intimidate citizens and line their pockets with overtime pay.
PPD have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars through their excessive unnecessary arrests–evidenced by dismissal by court judges–and in doing so have put hundreds of residents and therefore the Phoenix community at high risk of COVID. PPD have acted dangerously and clearly continue to do so. PPD do not serve but only harm the Phoenix community.
Council and mayor you have shown your white supremacist disregard for Black lives, so let’s talk money instead. You have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive dangerous equipment that harms peaceful protesters and with hundreds of extra officers who violently target and falsely arrest our people. What a waste of our tax dollars! Most cases are dismissed which is proof this is just a tactic to intimidate and silence our community’s demand for justice.
You have not done nearly enough and it shows how tone deaf you are to this issue. PPD is using terror tactics on innocent people and they have spent millions of dollars to do it. Stop giving PPD the funds to abuse and kill innocent people and put that money into community support, schools and affordable healthcare. Until you do this, you will not have done enough and we will continue to oppose you.
The Phoenix Police have needlessly exposed protesters to COVID-19.
Police agreed to cite and release people at the beginning of the pandemic. Despite that, PPD has made hundreds of arrests for marching against police violence. These arrests were unnecessary and dismissed by judges. Jail exposed people needlessly to the virus.
Police have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive equipment and hundreds of extra cops
PPD does not keep us safe. PPD is purposefully destroying our community efforts to reduce the harm of Covid 19 AND suppressing our right to protest. And they've wasted $12M in the process. These cases were dismissed by judges--there was no purpose to these arrests other than the corrupt political dealings between MCAO and PPD. Their readiness to do harm in the name of grasping at power is clear and only clarifies what PPD is really about and that it's time for Phoenix to divest from policing.
Phoenix Police do not protect or serve the Phoenix community. Phoenix police intentionally exacerbated the Covid problem in Phoenix by making hundreds of unnecessary arrests at peaceful protests. Phoenix police officers should not receive any overtime and the person managing the police schedule should be fired for wasting millions of Phoenix tax dollars. Phoenix Police do not protect or serve the Phoenix community.
The Phoenix Police Department and Maricopa County Attorneys Office have developed an opportunistic partnership in a desperate attempt at political gain. These two agencies are colluding and their partnership is nothing less than corruption. This is made obvious by the countless cases where you see judges refusing to charge people based on police reports lacking probable cause just to see MCAO bringing the same charges to grand juries for indictment.
Phoenix PD is suppressing people's first amendment rights to protest simply because they don't like what we're saying about them and their racist, fascist tendencies. Arresting people during a global pandemic and forcing them to sit overnight in jail, often times with untreated injuries caused by the police while the police make 12 million in overtime is disgusting. Police brutality must end. Targeting, hunting, harassing and assaulting civilians must end. This city should be ashamed of itself.
Baseless arrests during a pandemic, unnecessary use of force and millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on overtime harm our community and further degrade the reputation of the Phoenix Police Department.
PPD is silencing the voices calling to defund their violent agency and MCAO Allister Adel is grasping at anything she can to try to win an election to keep hold of an office that was handed to her - she didn’t earn the trust of the voters. These two agencies are colluding and their partnership is nothing less than corruption. And we see this exemplified in all these police reports lacking probable cause that the judges throw out once it goes to trial! Stop silencing dissent!
Disappointment doesn’t even begin to describe my emotions towards the city’s leadership. PHX PD continues to use taxpayers money to perpetuate trauma. You take our money and use it to wrongfully arrest us, to beat and abuse us, to target and hunt down the Black leadership... the list of trauma goes on. I have no trust in this city. I have no trust in your reforms. Do better, and do better now.
These "changes" are pathetically inadequate. Not only do they keep murdering people, Phx PD are on a violent mission to silence protestors standing up against that brutality. How about $12M wasted on overtime, expensive equipment, and hundreds of extra officers used to intimidate protestors? *Hundreds* of wrongful arrests made at peaceful demonstrations? Hunting down and caging community leaders for exercising their first amendment rights? You don't think any of THAT constitutes excessive force?
The anti-Black white supremacist Phoenix police are incapable of restraint. They murder people with guns and their bare hands. Phoenix police cannot be trusted to use any force at all. They have made mass arrests and target community leaders without cause. No policy will ever be enough to root out the anti-Blackness and white supremacy from the murderous Phoenix police. The only policy that can begin to address their atrocities would be a 50% reduction in patrol cops with plans to fire the rest
These provisions are woefully insignificant. There is much more to be addressed, such as the excessive, unlawful arrests seen during protests. "except in the most extreme, life-threatening situations when all other options have been exhausted" is subjective and is can be left to the discretion of the officers who use that power to shoot freely. There must be definite restrictions on use of force and consequences such as immediate termination and charges for those officers who violate them
The Phoenix PD has wasted 12 million dollars in taxpayer money to pay officers overtime to harass, intimidate, and arrest peaceful protesters exercising their 1st amendment right to peacefully protest. This is such a huge waste & overreaction on the department's part. Also, they needlessly arrested 200 people during Covid-19. These actions of the PXPD are reckless, irresponsible, & dangerous to the citizens the department is supposed to be serving and protecting. This is such an abuse of power.
The Phoenix Police Department have wasted 12 million dollars in overtime at peaceful marches this summer. Arrests at these marches were easily dismissed, highlighting the fact their traumatic and dangerous tactic is just that a tactic and not an actual concern of immediate danger. Not to mention the danger of arresting hundreds of people in the midst of a deadly pandemic in what was once, and probably will become again, a world hot spot!
Phoenix PD has wasted $12 million in taxpayer money to harass and intimidate protestors, stifling the critical messages and concerns of the community members they purportedly serve. Most of these arrests are dismissed, which highlights their utter uselessness. These tactics do nothing to keep the community safe; they merely line cops' pockets.
The Police Use of Force Policy Changes as written are completely unacceptable and don't address the absolute abuse and out-of-control nature of the Phoenix Police department, especially their use of unnecessary deadly force. All items mentioned are still subjective after the fact, making it possible for officers to explain away their behavior without any accountability. We also cannot trust that these guidelines will be adhered to at a level that affects real change.
Police are charging Phoenix citizens overtime to saturate peaceful marches with armed officers and officers with special equipment. They have cost $12 million!
Meanwhile, the courts throw out the majority of arrests made at peaceful marches and protests, demonstrating that police are using these tactics to intimidate citizens and line their pockets with overtime pay.
PPD have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars through their excessive unnecessary arrests–evidenced by dismissal by court judges–and in doing so have put hundreds of residents and therefore the Phoenix community at high risk of COVID. PPD have acted dangerously and clearly continue to do so. PPD do not serve but only harm the Phoenix community.
Council and mayor you have shown your white supremacist disregard for Black lives, so let’s talk money instead. You have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive dangerous equipment that harms peaceful protesters and with hundreds of extra officers who violently target and falsely arrest our people. What a waste of our tax dollars! Most cases are dismissed which is proof this is just a tactic to intimidate and silence our community’s demand for justice.
You have not done nearly enough and it shows how tone deaf you are to this issue. PPD is using terror tactics on innocent people and they have spent millions of dollars to do it. Stop giving PPD the funds to abuse and kill innocent people and put that money into community support, schools and affordable healthcare. Until you do this, you will not have done enough and we will continue to oppose you.
The Phoenix Police have needlessly exposed protesters to COVID-19.
Police agreed to cite and release people at the beginning of the pandemic. Despite that, PPD has made hundreds of arrests for marching against police violence. These arrests were unnecessary and dismissed by judges. Jail exposed people needlessly to the virus.
Police have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive equipment and hundreds of extra cops
PPD does not keep us safe. PPD is purposefully destroying our community efforts to reduce the harm of Covid 19 AND suppressing our right to protest. And they've wasted $12M in the process. These cases were dismissed by judges--there was no purpose to these arrests other than the corrupt political dealings between MCAO and PPD. Their readiness to do harm in the name of grasping at power is clear and only clarifies what PPD is really about and that it's time for Phoenix to divest from policing.
Phoenix Police do not protect or serve the Phoenix community. Phoenix police intentionally exacerbated the Covid problem in Phoenix by making hundreds of unnecessary arrests at peaceful protests. Phoenix police officers should not receive any overtime and the person managing the police schedule should be fired for wasting millions of Phoenix tax dollars. Phoenix Police do not protect or serve the Phoenix community.
The Phoenix Police Department and Maricopa County Attorneys Office have developed an opportunistic partnership in a desperate attempt at political gain. These two agencies are colluding and their partnership is nothing less than corruption. This is made obvious by the countless cases where you see judges refusing to charge people based on police reports lacking probable cause just to see MCAO bringing the same charges to grand juries for indictment.
Phoenix PD is suppressing people's first amendment rights to protest simply because they don't like what we're saying about them and their racist, fascist tendencies. Arresting people during a global pandemic and forcing them to sit overnight in jail, often times with untreated injuries caused by the police while the police make 12 million in overtime is disgusting. Police brutality must end. Targeting, hunting, harassing and assaulting civilians must end. This city should be ashamed of itself.
Baseless arrests during a pandemic, unnecessary use of force and millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on overtime harm our community and further degrade the reputation of the Phoenix Police Department.
PPD is silencing the voices calling to defund their violent agency and MCAO Allister Adel is grasping at anything she can to try to win an election to keep hold of an office that was handed to her - she didn’t earn the trust of the voters. These two agencies are colluding and their partnership is nothing less than corruption. And we see this exemplified in all these police reports lacking probable cause that the judges throw out once it goes to trial! Stop silencing dissent!
Disappointment doesn’t even begin to describe my emotions towards the city’s leadership. PHX PD continues to use taxpayers money to perpetuate trauma. You take our money and use it to wrongfully arrest us, to beat and abuse us, to target and hunt down the Black leadership... the list of trauma goes on. I have no trust in this city. I have no trust in your reforms. Do better, and do better now.
These "changes" are pathetically inadequate. Not only do they keep murdering people, Phx PD are on a violent mission to silence protestors standing up against that brutality. How about $12M wasted on overtime, expensive equipment, and hundreds of extra officers used to intimidate protestors? *Hundreds* of wrongful arrests made at peaceful demonstrations? Hunting down and caging community leaders for exercising their first amendment rights? You don't think any of THAT constitutes excessive force?
The anti-Black white supremacist Phoenix police are incapable of restraint. They murder people with guns and their bare hands. Phoenix police cannot be trusted to use any force at all. They have made mass arrests and target community leaders without cause. No policy will ever be enough to root out the anti-Blackness and white supremacy from the murderous Phoenix police. The only policy that can begin to address their atrocities would be a 50% reduction in patrol cops with plans to fire the rest
These provisions are woefully insignificant. There is much more to be addressed, such as the excessive, unlawful arrests seen during protests. "except in the most extreme, life-threatening situations when all other options have been exhausted" is subjective and is can be left to the discretion of the officers who use that power to shoot freely. There must be definite restrictions on use of force and consequences such as immediate termination and charges for those officers who violate them
The Phoenix PD has wasted 12 million dollars in taxpayer money to pay officers overtime to harass, intimidate, and arrest peaceful protesters exercising their 1st amendment right to peacefully protest. This is such a huge waste & overreaction on the department's part. Also, they needlessly arrested 200 people during Covid-19. These actions of the PXPD are reckless, irresponsible, & dangerous to the citizens the department is supposed to be serving and protecting. This is such an abuse of power.
The Phoenix Police Department have wasted 12 million dollars in overtime at peaceful marches this summer. Arrests at these marches were easily dismissed, highlighting the fact their traumatic and dangerous tactic is just that a tactic and not an actual concern of immediate danger. Not to mention the danger of arresting hundreds of people in the midst of a deadly pandemic in what was once, and probably will become again, a world hot spot!
Phoenix PD has wasted $12 million in taxpayer money to harass and intimidate protestors, stifling the critical messages and concerns of the community members they purportedly serve. Most of these arrests are dismissed, which highlights their utter uselessness. These tactics do nothing to keep the community safe; they merely line cops' pockets.
The Police Use of Force Policy Changes as written are completely unacceptable and don't address the absolute abuse and out-of-control nature of the Phoenix Police department, especially their use of unnecessary deadly force. All items mentioned are still subjective after the fact, making it possible for officers to explain away their behavior without any accountability. We also cannot trust that these guidelines will be adhered to at a level that affects real change.
Police need to use force when necessary