I support the call to reduce police funding and reallocate the funds towards other essential services and investments. This should also accompany a reduction in the responsibilities tasked to the police. The idea is not to reduce the police department’s funding, while still having the police oversee all the same activities with which they are currently tasked. Rather, lets focus the police department on activities that require law enforcement with a highly skilled armed official, and shift responsibilities and resources to other community providers for areas that do not, such as homelessness, mental illness, and traffic violations. There is a clear win-win here – allow the police to focus on specific areas of law enforcement and reduce their burden of having to also respond to concerns that do not require an armed police officer. The police have not signed up to be social workers or mental health professionals or caretakers of the homeless – we should not be asking them to play these roles.This simply is realigning professionals that serve the community so that their skills aligned with the various needs of the community.
It is important that this does not result in an overall reduction of investments and resources into our communities. Let’s expand community investments to ensure that essential needs, such as housing, jobs, health care, and education, are met.
Please defund the Fresno City Police and redistribute these funds to social services and education that could better serve the City of Fresno. I live less than half a mile from a police station and NEVER see police patrol my neighborhood, because those officers spend their time disproportionately patrolling, ticketing and arresting Fresno residents in the predominately poor neighborhoods.
The resources given to police would be better served to social services for the poor and for education and child care. NOT for the further militarization of our police.
Please defund the Fresno Police Department and distribute these funds to education, housing, and mental health for the betterment of Fresno and its residents.
FPD should be defunded and have the funds that it would have consumed to be funneled towards education and/or social services, especially implementations of which that are directed towards west Fresno
I support the call to reduce police funding and reallocate the funds towards other essential services and investments. This should also accompany a reduction in the responsibilities tasked to the police. The idea is not to reduce the police department’s funding, while still having the police oversee all the same activities with which they are currently tasked. Rather, lets focus the police department on activities that require law enforcement with a highly skilled armed official, and shift responsibilities and resources to other community providers for areas that do not, such as homelessness, mental illness, and traffic violations. There is a clear win-win here – allow the police to focus on specific areas of law enforcement and reduce their burden of having to also respond to concerns that do not require an armed police officer. The police have not signed up to be social workers or mental health professionals or caretakers of the homeless – we should not be asking them to play these roles.This simply is realigning professionals that serve the community so that their skills aligned with the various needs of the community.
It is important that this does not result in an overall reduction of investments and resources into our communities. Let’s expand community investments to ensure that essential needs, such as housing, jobs, health care, and education, are met.
Please defund the Fresno City Police and redistribute these funds to social services and education that could better serve the City of Fresno. I live less than half a mile from a police station and NEVER see police patrol my neighborhood, because those officers spend their time disproportionately patrolling, ticketing and arresting Fresno residents in the predominately poor neighborhoods.
The resources given to police would be better served to social services for the poor and for education and child care. NOT for the further militarization of our police.
Please defund the Fresno Police Department and distribute these funds to education, housing, and mental health for the betterment of Fresno and its residents.
FPD should be defunded and have the funds that it would have consumed to be funneled towards education and/or social services, especially implementations of which that are directed towards west Fresno