Oppose agenda item 73. Our community cannot eat tasers for nourishment. Tasers do not provide access to food & clean drinking water. Our community cannot shelter underneath tasers. Tasers are not affordable housing. Tasers do not provide a reprieve from the climate crisis, a reprieve from the extreme heat, or a reprieve for our unhoused neighbors. Our community cannot get their basic needs met & life-saving resources by $22M worth of tasers that will be used to harm and traumatize our community.
I oppose agenda item 73. 126 pages of the DOJ report proves many times over what the community of Phoenix has been saying for decades: Phoenix Police Department is one of the deadliest in the United States. The report also sights the inappropriate use of non-lethal weapons by the department, causing harm to our community members that PPD then mocks and fights being accountable to repair. Phoenix City Council is complicit in this violence and continues to be so if this agenda item is approved.
The city must vote against line item #73. As was seen by the DOJ report, it is clear that the Phoenix Police Department is committing state sanctioned violence against its citizens. It was only a few months ago that the police department brutally assaulted a disabled and unarmed Black man, Tyron Alpin, through repeated beatings and tasings. Purchasing more tasers would only result in more violence towards everyday citizens. The city should instead invest in better education and mental health res
The $22M proposed for tasers is a misguided investment in force over solutions. Crime stems from addiction, poverty, and untreated mental health issues—issues better addressed with expanded treatment, social workers, and violence prevention programs. Tools like tasers don’t solve these problems; they perpetuate cycles of harm. Investing in community-based resources tackles violence at its root and creates safer, healthier neighborhoods and that’s a fact.
Oppose agenda item 73. Our community cannot eat tasers for nourishment. Tasers do not provide access to food & clean drinking water. Our community cannot shelter underneath tasers. Tasers are not affordable housing. Tasers do not provide a reprieve from the climate crisis, a reprieve from the extreme heat, or a reprieve for our unhoused neighbors. Our community cannot get their basic needs met & life-saving resources by $22M worth of tasers that will be used to harm and traumatize our community.
I oppose agenda item 73. 126 pages of the DOJ report proves many times over what the community of Phoenix has been saying for decades: Phoenix Police Department is one of the deadliest in the United States. The report also sights the inappropriate use of non-lethal weapons by the department, causing harm to our community members that PPD then mocks and fights being accountable to repair. Phoenix City Council is complicit in this violence and continues to be so if this agenda item is approved.
The city must vote against line item #73. As was seen by the DOJ report, it is clear that the Phoenix Police Department is committing state sanctioned violence against its citizens. It was only a few months ago that the police department brutally assaulted a disabled and unarmed Black man, Tyron Alpin, through repeated beatings and tasings. Purchasing more tasers would only result in more violence towards everyday citizens. The city should instead invest in better education and mental health res
The $22M proposed for tasers is a misguided investment in force over solutions. Crime stems from addiction, poverty, and untreated mental health issues—issues better addressed with expanded treatment, social workers, and violence prevention programs. Tools like tasers don’t solve these problems; they perpetuate cycles of harm. Investing in community-based resources tackles violence at its root and creates safer, healthier neighborhoods and that’s a fact.