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Meeting Comment Agenda Submitted Time Name: Comments: Date: Type Item I ask you to listen to the community's demand asking you to defund the SDPD. There have been so many reports that show that the SDPD disproportionately incarcerates, is violent towards, and inspires fear in our City Council 5/15/2021 8:24 Annika Schafer 5/17/2021 600 communities of color. They do not do the work of justice and they must be defunded. Last Wednesday, you Comment saw the gruesome violence that they exercise towards our unhoused community and POC. My name is Sophia Conti and I am once again demanding that you do not increase the SDPD budget. We've all heard Mayor Gloria's claims that he is not increasing the budget...with a big exception for a $19million dollar increase for legally obligated pension payments. If the Independent Commission for Police Practices, which is also a legal obligation rather than one of Mayor Gloria's own policies, can be funded by reallocating the police budget internally, why can't the pension payments also come from within the already enormous police budget? City Council 5/15/2021 9:17 Sophia Conti 5/17/2021 600 "But we can't reduce police services!" you might say. It's clear to us that in fact, you can. Just last week two Comment SDPD officers were caught on video attacking and assaulting an unhoused Black man, soon to be assisted by two more officers. If this is the best thing that four SDPD officers can do with their time, then they probably don't need to be on the payroll. You can use their salaries to fund those growing pension costs. We're so tired of the SDPD being treated as indispensable while libraries, homeless services, and other community and youth services see their budgets slashed or stagnate. The SDPD is not creating the community we want to live in. Create a budget that reflects what San Diegans actually want. Hi, my name is Rachel Baylor and I live in PB. The Proposed Budget maintains the status quo rather than setting a long-term agenda for much needed change in the City. I am opposing the $19 million increase in police department funding. People need services that will improve their lives, not more policing. Redefining public safety means creating a system where everyone is truly safe. Safety at its core comes from having a home to live in, community support, food on the table, a healthy environment and equitable job opportunities. To do this, we need to move money from the bloated police budget into these areas and implement alternatives to policing that provide trauma informed community-based responses to crises.It’s time to make communities that have been impacted by systemic discrimination and underfunding, the City’s top priority rather than continually increasing the police budget. Our communities should have access to all City Council 5/15/2021 9:18 Rachel Baylor 5/17/2021 600 the resources they need to be safe and to thrive. This means that the City must invest in community-led Comment violence prevention programs, and ensure that the right professionals can respond to crises. SDPD should not respond to these crises. We must ensure that funding goes to the right services, like mental health professionals, safe housing, youth programs and more. We call on you to: Fund Youth Violence Intervention Programs Create a Transitional Age Unit Re-allocate police funding to these initiatives and use the Proposed Budget to move functions out of the Police Department. My name is Danielle, and I am a resident of San Diego. I demand that you hear the community's voices asking you to defund the SDPD. We are tired of the police's racist [expletive] and blatant lies. Last Wednesday, two SDPD officers was caught on video tackling and punching a Black homeless man in La Jolla. How much more evidence do the City Council and Mayor need to see that police officers are not equipped to handle homelessness, nor should they, nor they want to. Why do you keep their funding for this task when you can fund other programs that don't traumatizing and do harms to the homeless community? Police do nothing to prevent attacks, they respond when called upon. The fallacy that police keep us safe, especially City Council 5/15/2021 9:23 Danielle Bunch 5/17/2021 600 BIPOC individuals is just that, fallacy. A reactionary system that is ill equipped to react with empathy is not a Comment system of protection. Patrols don’t work, they lack mental health support services, and too many use their position for abuse of authority, an ego trip of power. We’ve got to do better. We can do better. Y’ALL have to want better. With great concern, The Granddaughter of Roosevelt Bunch, a pioneer Black detective of Vicksburg Mississippi’s “Magnificent 7” (look it up) who was directly taught to not always trust police from that same honored officer due to a history of violence and indigent behavior he directly experienced from his very own. Like many others in our community, I cannot stand by and accept that normal life will include video after video of police brutality in my city. If the police cannot bring humanity and compassion to the scene, then we need to invest in alternative solutions. Poverty is not a crime, it's a failure of society. Being a person of color City Council 5/15/2021 11:10 Julie Cakici 5/17/2021 600 is not a crime, it's a variation in melatonin levels. Force should be the last resort against violent attacks, not Comment the first resort to dominate those who have caused no harm. The city needs to ask itself who it is and what it stands for. I for one wish my tax dollars to be spend raising people up not beating them down. My name is Jessica, and I am a resident of San Diego. I demand that you hear the community's voices asking you to defund the SDPD. We are tired of the police's racist [expletive] and blatant lies. (pick one) Last Wednesday, two SDPD officers was caught on video tackling and punching a Black homeless man in La City Council Jolla. How much more evidence do the City Council and Mayor need to see that police officers are not 5/15/2021 12:40 Jessica Chavez 5/17/2021 600 Comment equipped to handle homelessness, nor should they, nor they want to. Why do you keep their funding for this task when you can fund other programs that don't traumatizing and do harms to the homeless community? My name is Alejandra, and I am a resident of San Diego. I demand that you hear the community's voices asking you to defund the SDPD. We are tired of the police's racist [expletive] and blatant lies.' The police keep crying woo about their budget, while ignoring the fact that their budget ACTUALLY has increased every year for 11 years in a row, AND is the largest funded department in the city. With the proposed $19M increase for FY2022, their budget has grown $214.7M more than what it was in 2011. Alejandra Lucero- City Council 5/15/2021 13:02 5/17/2021 600 Meanwhile the funding for community services has been continually defunded and stagnant. Canaán Comment We the people want services that will bring positive quality of life, not policing. You cannot acknowledge the harm of the police done to our communities and talk about alternative to policing on one hand, while proposing an increase in their funding on the other hand. We need you to act, not giving us any more lip- services. Please defund the police and fund that money into social programs that will actually benefit those that are City Council 5/15/2021 13:16 tiana 5/17/2021 600 poor and homeless. Criminalizing homelessness and poverty is cruel. The police are not appropriate to handle Comment such people. Please show that you actually care about the poor and defund the police. What are we going to do about the excessive force of police and unhoused people? We need to defund the police and reallocate these resources into education, housing and food resources. This is unacceptable. City Council 5/15/2021 15:12 Miranda Aponte 5/17/2021 600 Comment The police keep crying woo about their budget, while ignoring the fact that their budget ACTUALLY has City Council increased every year for 11 years in a row, AND is the largest funded department in the city. With the 5/15/2021 15:37 melody 5/17/2021 600 Comment proposed $19M increase for FY2022, their budget has grown $214.7M more than what it was in 2011. Meanwhile the funding for community services has been continually defunded and stagnant. My name is Katie Zeitz, and I am a resident of San Diego. I demand that you hear the community's voices asking you to defund the SDPD. We are tired of the police's racist [expletive] and blatant lies. Last Wednesday, two SDPD officers was caught on video tackling and punching a Black homeless man in La Jolla. City Council 5/15/2021 15:48 Katie Zeitz 5/17/2021 600 How much more evidence do the City Council and Mayor need to see that police officers are not equipped to Comment handle homelessness, nor should they, nor they want to. Why do you keep their funding for this task when you can fund other programs that don't traumatizing and do harms to the homeless community? My name is Patrick, and I am a resident of San Diego.