Meeting Time: October 13, 2020 at 2:30pm MST
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3 Office of Accountability and Transparency Ordinance Discussion

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    Sarai Richter over 3 years ago

    How can an Office of Accountability and Transparency be that with cops on the payroll? They will be looking out for their own and protecting themselves. In order for true transparency cops can not be a part of the department. We need a separation!

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    Jasmine Johnson over 3 years ago

    If the civilian oversight policy doesn’t have independent investigations and community participation in the policy writing, we’re asking Council to delay the vote until they get it right and honor our clear demands. Something is NOT better than nothing when our lives are on the line.

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    Anesia Groves over 3 years ago

    While the anti-Black white supremacist phoenix police continue to harass, hunt down, attack, and cage protestors, you all are sitting around talking about having cops on the OAT? This is ridiculous, unacceptable, and insulting to community leaders. The only reason you had community support for OAT was because you promised independent investigations and a community-driven drafting process, which was apparently an outright lie. Delay the vote until you get it right. Honor the community's demands!

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    Jennifer Garibay over 3 years ago

    Putting civilian oversight in place that doesn’t have the power to initiate independent investigations is a slap in the face to victims of police violence and their families. Writing this policy behind closed doors shows us the city never had any intention of increasing police transparency or accountability.

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    LaShae Brown over 3 years ago

    If the office of accountability and transparency is not going to have independent investigations, then the 'T' should be removed from the name. Independent investigations must be apart of this office.

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    Mary Mansouri over 3 years ago

    Putting civilian oversight in place that doesn’t have the power to initiate independent investigations is a slap in the face to victims of police violence and their families. Writing this policy behind closed doors shows us the city never had any intention of increasing police transparency or accountability.

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    Emily Tuttle over 3 years ago

    It is unacceptable that Council removed independent investigations and community participation from OAT. Removing the voices of the directly impacted populations proves that your goal was never accountability or transparency -- you only cared about protecting your image.

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    Manny Burruel over 3 years ago

    You let community organizers know just one day before this meeting that you will be voting today to allow cops to apply to work at OAT. This is unacceptable. If the civilian oversight policy doesn’t have independent investigations and community participation in the policy writing, Please delay the vote until they get it right. Something is NOT better than nothing when peoples lives are affected.

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    Chad Butche over 3 years ago

    Putting civilian oversight in place that doesn’t have the power to initiate independent investigations is a slap in the face to victims of police violence and their families. Writing this policy behind closed doors shows us the city never had any intention of increasing police transparency or accountability. I expect better from my home city.

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    Emily Jespersen over 3 years ago

    This is a blatant attempt for Phoenix police to circle their wagons and continue to operate with complete lack of accountability to the community they are supposed to serve. This vote should be delayed to allow for proper community involvement. The people of Phoenix deserve a say in the way the are policed, and the police should answer to the people they serve, not other police officers.

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    Sonja Brousseau over 3 years ago

    I fully oppose. Officers on a civilian oversight committee for police misconduct? That sentence is so absurd I shouldn’t even have to elaborate. Do inmates sit on the parole board? No.

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    Christina Flinders over 3 years ago

    If cops are still investigating cops, you’re creating an office that’s a $3 million rubber stamp to the police department’s current investigative process. If civilian oversight doesn’t have the ability to do independent investigations, it’s doing more harm than good, and we can’t implement that.

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    Ashley Naftule over 3 years ago

    When the issue of civilian oversight was brought up earlier in the year, we were promised that the police would be overseen by an independent apparatus. The council gained support for this initiative BECAUSE we thought this was going to be independent oversight. You can't have the police investigating themselves. If this year has taught us anything, it's that police departments across the U.S. are unwilling to hold themselves accountable- even in the face of immense public outcry.