Police budgets are another dimension of violence perpetrated against Black communities. When you starve the South and West Sides of basic services but pump up a budget for a department that produces less and less every year, it is as if you would prefer money to be wasted than
used to help Black people 🧐
Even in years when CPD can't find people to work as cops and they make it a whole news story, they STILL get more money. Arrests go down every year, but you know what goes up? The budget 4 administration. So you're hiring more people to oversee fewer
Even in years when CPD can't find people to work as cops and they make it a whole news story, they STILL get more money. Arrests go down every year, but you know what goes up? The budget 4 administration. So you're hiring more people to oversee fewer
police? 🤔 But we can't have social workers and nurses in our schools, or librarians, or mental health clinics?
My public safety and policing plan calls for smarter police budgets, not bigger and bigger ones without conditions tied to increases. Let's end the rewarding of bad
My public safety and policing plan calls for smarter police budgets, not bigger and bigger ones without conditions tied to increases. Let's end the rewarding of bad
behavior. And we need #TreatmentNotTrauma -- money has to go to professional services that will help emergency situations like mental health crises.
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