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-Reject any proposed expansion to police budgets.
- Prohibit private-public innovation schemes that profit from temporary technological fixes to systemic problems of police abuse and violence.
- Reduce the power of police unions
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- Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security.
- End the militarization of Black and brown neighborhoods
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-Remove police, both public and private, from all schools.
- Call on universities to dissolve relationships with police departments.
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-Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies.
-Call on Mayors to grant clemencies to criminalized survivors of violence.
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- Promote neighborhood councils as representative bodies within municipal decision making.
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