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Charter Commission Public Safety Comments July 20 7/20/2020 4:04:40 PM My name is 00000 00000000, and I am a resident of Minneapolis. I support divestment from police and reinvestment in our communities, and I am calling on the Charter Commission to let the people vote on the charter amendment. Over-policing and police violence have destroyed Black, brown and Indigenous communities while failing to keep us safe. Voters like me should have a role in determining the future of public safety in our city, because we know best what will allow all our neighborhoods to really thrive. This initiative is our best chance to build stronger, safer communities for everyone in Minneapolis. Please pass the charter amendment along to voters, and respect our democratic right to decide the future of our city. Ward 3 7/20/2020 4:04:51 PM I'm a member of Kenwood community, and I’d like to voice my support for the charter amendment to change the way our city handles public safety. To push the vote back another year is an act of disrespect and hate toward the marginalized people who are most impacted by the oppressive nature of our current system. Any member of the commission who thinks that waiting is best will lose the respect of the people they represent. Please listen to the calls of the people and allow this change to go through this year. Let the people decide for themselves! Ward 7 7/20/2020 4:06:35 PM I support the charter commission moving the current language of the amendment to a ballot vote in November. Give the people of Minneapolis the space to craft something better than policing, we can do it, but the charter can't stand in the way. This is the first step, of many, needed to make our city safer for ALL peoples. Ward 1 7/20/2020 4:06:46 PM Dear Charter Commission, I am not in favor of the amendment to the City of Minneapolis charter. I do not want to disempower our mayor and hand the authority of our public safety to a committee of the Minneapolis City Council. I do think that we need significant police reform, but the City Council has failed to show how or what they would do to improve public safety in our city should this amendment pass. I also think this would play into the hands of privatization of public safety, as we have already seen to the tune of thousands of dollars with the private security provided to our city council representatives. I do not want to live in a city where only the public officials and wealthy have public safety. Time to toss this amendment in the garbage. Don't waste the time and money that it will cost to put it on the ballot. If the current city council members get reelected in 2021, then let them have another go at amending the charter. Ward 4 7/20/2020 4:15:25 PM I feel that this has been done without intentional discussion with residents (except for those already vocal about this) by our council members. They reacted to a difficult situation by trying to capitalize on this through grandstanding and responding to pressure by a very vocal minority. They have not put forward any plan nor any idea of how this would be worked out and yet want us to vote to change the charter. CM Cano both on TV and through an aid (we called her office and talked with this aid) has stated they cannot begin to dream of new alternatives until the charter is changed. This is ridiculous. How can there be a vote to change without being given and alternative? We do not agree with their commitment to defund the police, especially when they themselves hire private security for protection at tax payer expense. They want to remove our security while hiring some for themselves. We believe there is a need for reform, mostly in the city council, but also for the police, but defunding and changing the charter is not the answer. Ward 9 7/20/2020 4:15:52 PM My name is 000000 00000000 and I am a resident of Minneapolis. I support investment in our communities first and foremost. To me, this means a significant reduction in police and reallocation funds to community safety and social programs. I want the Charter Commission to let the people vote on this charter amendment. Over-policing and police violence have destroyed Black, brown and Indigenous communities while failing to keep us safe. Community members like me should be central in determining the future of public safety in our city. We know best what will allow all our neighborhoods to really thrive. This is far too important. We all have so much at stake, but especially Black, brown, and Indigenous peoples. We must be given the chance to vote. This initiative will allow us to build stronger, safer communities for everyone in Minneapolis. You can be a positive force for change. You can help our city make history. Please pass the charter amendment along to voters, and respect our democratic right to decide the future of our city. Ward 12 7/20/2020 4:20:55 PM I am opposed to all changes to the charter at this time. I especially oppose wresting control of the police force away from the Mayor and moving that power to the City Council. I also oppose the official language the at would remove the police department and rename it. It is unnecessary in my opinion and lacks the planning that should have been done ahead of this rushed proposed change. Ward 11 7/20/2020 4:21:21 PM We need an alternative to traditional policing, one that involves close contact with the community and equal protection for people of all races. 7/20/2020 4:21:35 PM My name is 00000000 000000 and I am a resident of Minneapolis. I support divestment from police and reinvestment in our communities, and I am calling on the Charter Commission to let the people vote on the charter amendment. Over-policing and police violence have destroyed Black, brown and Indigenous communities while failing to keep us safe. Voters like me should have a role in determining the future of public safety in our city, because we know best what will allow all our neighborhoods to really thrive. This initiative is our best chance to build stronger, safer communities for everyone in Minneapolis. Please pass the charter amendment along to voters, and respect our democratic right to decide the future of our city. Ward 12 7/20/2020 4:22:36 PM The proposed changes to our Charter are potentially huge. i think it will be important for the voters to have a chance to signal their support for, or opposition,to, the process esrly on. Ward 12 7/20/2020 4:38:04 PM Members of the Charter Commission- We the people have had enough. It is clear that something needs to change and amending the city charter will allow us to reimagine public safety from the ground up. The master's tools cannot dismantle the master's house. This charter is one of those tools and we have the opportunity to eliminate this one of the many obstacles in our path toward a more equitable and just city. We showed up in the streets, in meetings with the city council, and we are now ready to show up to the ballots and vote for the future of our community. Will you let us vote? Ward 5 7/20/2020 4:39:35 PM I do not agree that the charter amendment should be put on the ballot in 2020. There are too many unanswered questions. I don''t understand why some council members say the charter must be amended before they can come up with the details of what a new public safety division would look like. I would rather have them come up with a plan and then propose a charter amendment that would fit that plan. This does not have to happen in this election cycle. Ward 7 7/20/2020 4:40:34 PM Hello, I am writing to express my continued conviction that the charter amendment NEEDS to be on the ballot this year. This conversation is too urgent to be delayed or stunted. The people of Minneapolis deserve the right to vote on this change for themselves. This is of paramount importance to so many, and our government needs to reflect that. To hoard decision-making among a few unelected(!!) officials (even when it comes to deciding what we can vote on) is undemocratic in the face of this much support and discourse among the people. This decision should be in the hands of the general populace. Let us vote. Putting this amendment to the Charter on the ballot is not abolition of the police. It is simply the first step towards reimagining our futures and building from the ground up. If you believe that any real change is needed, you need to allow this change to the charter to be put on the table. It is what will allow us to move forward, to any extent, into a safer future free of racist policing. Let the people decide. Allowing this change to be put on the ballot would be a symbolic gesture as well as an administrative one. Putting this amendment on the ballot means supporting the continued discussion of safety in Minneapolis. It means opening the door for our city to envision new futures, to imagine big change in favor of the community, to talk about what is actually important for us.
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