I strongly oppose this contract. PLEA has proven that it has no interest in either protecting or serving. When the people of this city called for immediate measures to curtail PPD violence, like banning the deadly and unnecessary carotid hold, PLEA responded by boasting that police would simply have to shoot and kill more people. We demand better.
I fully and strongly oppose this contract. The Phoenix PD is one of the most violent and oppressive police departments in the country. They only thing they deserve is our contempt, certainly not more funding.
This is a time of reckoning in America where we must come to terms where we have given Police Forces too much unchecked power and have been steadily militarizing them against U.S. citizens. They do not deserve more funds and in fact we should be defending them until we make them more transparent and less lethal. Especially since our Citizen Supervisory Board is floating in limbo, let's expand that first.
In a time where more transparency is needed between police and the communities they serve, Phoenix City Council is planning on doing the opposite. There should be NO negotiations behind closed doors. NO more money to police and police unions. We need MORE transparency and MORE accountability. The Phoenix community OPPOSES this and the City Council needs to stand up for their community.
After reading through the agenda item i can confidently say that i am oppose not only giving more money to an extremely overfunded (and statistically one of the most dangerous) police department as well as giving them unlimited amount of overtime when that can only bring more harm to our communities. I also find it ridiculous that all of these decisions are made without input from the public until it is almost final. we need transparency and an immediate defunding of the PPD.
I fully oppose this contract. It doesn’t serve the best interests of the community. The Phoenix Police Dept needs to be accountable for their racist actions, and it is completely unacceptable to provide them with more funds and less accountability. The community demands change.
PLEA spends our tax dollars on creating positive public perception and disciplinary defense every time officers brutalize people. People protest to defund an out of control police force, and PPD spends millions responding with even more violence. The City gets sued for excessive force, speech suppression, and other civil rights abuses, over and over. Then PLEA asks for more money to cover PPD's expenses in creating those lawsuits. We know PLEA and PPD can not be trusted. Council must see that!
Of course you prefer to “negotiate” with PLEA behind closed doors, especially today, while you are witnessing the biggest movement since the Civil Rights Era. We know you are going to give PLEA what they want---more funding, less transparency, and protection from discipline---but you should know that we are watching. And there will be a political price to pay for your cowardice in this critical moment.
Council and PLEA must agree on all terms for the MOU to work. Council you must stop PPD from gaining MORE power to kill, with LESS accountability. Your decision impacts Black and brown lives who are harmed and killed by PPD. Do NOT agree to: delay interrogation after an incident, give officers immediate access to recorded interrogation, leave out past misconduct in deciding discipline, allow officers to use vacation pay while on unpaid suspension, or remove disciplinary records after 10 years!
I am an Arizona taxpayer. It is so frustrating to hear over and over that there "isn't enough money" to pay for things like social support, the arts, or education in Arizona, yet PLEA wants to negotiate pay increases and pension upgrades for the Phoenix PD. Either there's money in AZ or there's not-- here is tangible proof that this violent police force is prioritized over regular citizens. Phx PD does not need more money to continue harming the most vulnerable communities in Phx.
Police officers should not be allowed a delay in their interviews. They should also not be allowed access to evidence, videos, recordings or any other type of evidence. Allowing them to access such evidence or delay their interviews is unethical and promotes a culture or conspiring and collusion. For these reasons i strongly oppose PLEA.
Council, it is completely unacceptable that PLEA is working behind closed doors to gain access to even MORE power and LESS accountability for their 2021-2023 MOU. The changes made to critical incidents, access to body cam footage and extra time before being interviewed are absolutely chilling. Do NOT give these killers more power and more ways to evade responsibility after they harm or kill a community member.
Council members, do not let Chief Williams allow officers to work unlimited off duty hours. We do not want cops acting as ‘security’ at public events. Having off duty cops working events does not create safety, instead it actually increases the risk that one of our community members will be harmed or murdered. The community deserves real safety and our only recourse for diminishing the power of PLEA and PPD is for council members to speak up and defend our community’s needs.
The people are protesting in ways we have not seen since the 1960s as they demand accountability from one of the most violent police forces in the country. Instead of listening to the people and engaging in a frank discussion about defunding our bloated PPD budget, PLEA is asking for more money and more authority to respond to these protests. City Council has to intervene! Council members should be denying these absurd requests, and instead diminish PPD’s power altogether and defund the police.
Phoenix police needs to be held accountable for the culture of violence they have created. The council’s job is to protect the people of Phoenix. Not to protect the police, who have inflicted a lot of trauma in marginalized communities.
For the past decade alone, PLEA have only ever supported hatred, racism, and brutality against the people they are supposed to “serve and protect”. They’ve publicly endorsed every anti-immigrant measure from SB1070 to Joe Arpaio himself, while aggressively pushing the narrative that Black and brown people are solely responsible for all crime and violence in Phoenix. They have NO place in this city to be making demands for more funding and power while killing on the streets everyday.
Dear Council members. Please oppose this. Please vote from your conscience. From your sense of family. From your body. Feel all the lives that have been lost. Saves lives, starting with this vote. Be brave. Use your power to confront the corruption and imagine a better Phoenix. Wake up Thursday, knowing you did the right thing.
Police contracts, finances, accountability, and oversight have historically and currently continued to lack accountability and transparency in every way. There needs to be an substantial financial shift away from militarized police and towards comprehensive community needs. Our community is over-policed but under-protected and this contract protects and supports that. Your community OPPOSES this contract, and it is your responsibility to reflect the needs of the Phoenix community.
The last thing our Phoenix Police need is more money. Their abysmal success rate deserves no reward. They don't need more help to torment & inflict trauma on people. They need accountability for the lives they've stolen & families & communities left to clean up their messes. Please city council, reject this contract and come up with a better option for the public. These police aren't protecting & serving the vast majority of the Phoenix public. Money & power won't make them better at their jobs.
I strongly oppose this contract. PLEA has proven that it has no interest in either protecting or serving. When the people of this city called for immediate measures to curtail PPD violence, like banning the deadly and unnecessary carotid hold, PLEA responded by boasting that police would simply have to shoot and kill more people. We demand better.
I fully and strongly oppose this contract. The Phoenix PD is one of the most violent and oppressive police departments in the country. They only thing they deserve is our contempt, certainly not more funding.
This is a time of reckoning in America where we must come to terms where we have given Police Forces too much unchecked power and have been steadily militarizing them against U.S. citizens. They do not deserve more funds and in fact we should be defending them until we make them more transparent and less lethal. Especially since our Citizen Supervisory Board is floating in limbo, let's expand that first.
In a time where more transparency is needed between police and the communities they serve, Phoenix City Council is planning on doing the opposite. There should be NO negotiations behind closed doors. NO more money to police and police unions. We need MORE transparency and MORE accountability. The Phoenix community OPPOSES this and the City Council needs to stand up for their community.
After reading through the agenda item i can confidently say that i am oppose not only giving more money to an extremely overfunded (and statistically one of the most dangerous) police department as well as giving them unlimited amount of overtime when that can only bring more harm to our communities. I also find it ridiculous that all of these decisions are made without input from the public until it is almost final. we need transparency and an immediate defunding of the PPD.
I fully oppose this contract. It doesn’t serve the best interests of the community. The Phoenix Police Dept needs to be accountable for their racist actions, and it is completely unacceptable to provide them with more funds and less accountability. The community demands change.
PLEA spends our tax dollars on creating positive public perception and disciplinary defense every time officers brutalize people. People protest to defund an out of control police force, and PPD spends millions responding with even more violence. The City gets sued for excessive force, speech suppression, and other civil rights abuses, over and over. Then PLEA asks for more money to cover PPD's expenses in creating those lawsuits. We know PLEA and PPD can not be trusted. Council must see that!
Of course you prefer to “negotiate” with PLEA behind closed doors, especially today, while you are witnessing the biggest movement since the Civil Rights Era. We know you are going to give PLEA what they want---more funding, less transparency, and protection from discipline---but you should know that we are watching. And there will be a political price to pay for your cowardice in this critical moment.
We do not need to invest more money in one of the most violent police forces in the country to create a better future for our community.
Council and PLEA must agree on all terms for the MOU to work. Council you must stop PPD from gaining MORE power to kill, with LESS accountability. Your decision impacts Black and brown lives who are harmed and killed by PPD. Do NOT agree to: delay interrogation after an incident, give officers immediate access to recorded interrogation, leave out past misconduct in deciding discipline, allow officers to use vacation pay while on unpaid suspension, or remove disciplinary records after 10 years!
I am an Arizona taxpayer. It is so frustrating to hear over and over that there "isn't enough money" to pay for things like social support, the arts, or education in Arizona, yet PLEA wants to negotiate pay increases and pension upgrades for the Phoenix PD. Either there's money in AZ or there's not-- here is tangible proof that this violent police force is prioritized over regular citizens. Phx PD does not need more money to continue harming the most vulnerable communities in Phx.
Police officers should not be allowed a delay in their interviews. They should also not be allowed access to evidence, videos, recordings or any other type of evidence. Allowing them to access such evidence or delay their interviews is unethical and promotes a culture or conspiring and collusion. For these reasons i strongly oppose PLEA.
Council, it is completely unacceptable that PLEA is working behind closed doors to gain access to even MORE power and LESS accountability for their 2021-2023 MOU. The changes made to critical incidents, access to body cam footage and extra time before being interviewed are absolutely chilling. Do NOT give these killers more power and more ways to evade responsibility after they harm or kill a community member.
Council members, do not let Chief Williams allow officers to work unlimited off duty hours. We do not want cops acting as ‘security’ at public events. Having off duty cops working events does not create safety, instead it actually increases the risk that one of our community members will be harmed or murdered. The community deserves real safety and our only recourse for diminishing the power of PLEA and PPD is for council members to speak up and defend our community’s needs.
The people are protesting in ways we have not seen since the 1960s as they demand accountability from one of the most violent police forces in the country. Instead of listening to the people and engaging in a frank discussion about defunding our bloated PPD budget, PLEA is asking for more money and more authority to respond to these protests. City Council has to intervene! Council members should be denying these absurd requests, and instead diminish PPD’s power altogether and defund the police.
Phoenix police needs to be held accountable for the culture of violence they have created. The council’s job is to protect the people of Phoenix. Not to protect the police, who have inflicted a lot of trauma in marginalized communities.
For the past decade alone, PLEA have only ever supported hatred, racism, and brutality against the people they are supposed to “serve and protect”. They’ve publicly endorsed every anti-immigrant measure from SB1070 to Joe Arpaio himself, while aggressively pushing the narrative that Black and brown people are solely responsible for all crime and violence in Phoenix. They have NO place in this city to be making demands for more funding and power while killing on the streets everyday.
Dear Council members. Please oppose this. Please vote from your conscience. From your sense of family. From your body. Feel all the lives that have been lost. Saves lives, starting with this vote. Be brave. Use your power to confront the corruption and imagine a better Phoenix. Wake up Thursday, knowing you did the right thing.
Police contracts, finances, accountability, and oversight have historically and currently continued to lack accountability and transparency in every way. There needs to be an substantial financial shift away from militarized police and towards comprehensive community needs. Our community is over-policed but under-protected and this contract protects and supports that. Your community OPPOSES this contract, and it is your responsibility to reflect the needs of the Phoenix community.
The last thing our Phoenix Police need is more money. Their abysmal success rate deserves no reward. They don't need more help to torment & inflict trauma on people. They need accountability for the lives they've stolen & families & communities left to clean up their messes. Please city council, reject this contract and come up with a better option for the public. These police aren't protecting & serving the vast majority of the Phoenix public. Money & power won't make them better at their jobs.